Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Addendum: Possessive Pronouns

I remembered this last night. It kept me awake. Briefly:

You don't need an apostrophe in a possessive pronoun: his, hers, theirs, its

You should have an apostrophe if it's is not possissive, but a contraction of it is: It is hard to remember this stuff = It's hard to remember this stuff.

Example: It's the dog's business if it wants to chase its tail.

OK, class dismissed. Don't push, remember your jackets, don't run to the door.

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:26 PM

    Possissive (adj.)

    third rate
    unworthy
    underserving
    not fit for
    pathetic

    Use in a Sentence:

    The possessive pronouns being quite possissive can have an apostrophe or possessions but not both!

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  2. AAAA! I misspelled another word! Let's see, I've screwed up pomegranate, woolly, and possessive (although that was more a finger slip than a brain fart). Any others I should know about?

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  3. Anonymous11:06 AM

    Well, Honey, there is the article about the guy with the jerky mannerism. That should be tic, rather than tick.

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