Here's a better example:
Its or It's?
Its is the possessive pronoun; it modifies a noun.
It's is a contraction of it is or it has.
Incorrect: The mother cat carried it's kitten in it's mouth.
(Possessive pronoun, no apostrophe)
Correct: The mother cat carried its kitten in its mouth.
Correct: I think it's going to rain today.
(Contraction of it is)
Correct: It's been a very long time.
(Contraction of it has)
http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000227.htm
Gary.
"gedumer1" <gedumer1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> I'm sorry, but I have to correct Rene... "great improvement on its
> successors" is the correct usage of the word "its". The rule is as
> follows:
>
> It's versus Its.
>
> There's no shortcut; all you can do is memorize the rule. It's with an
> apostrophe means it is (or, a little less often and a little less
> formally, it has); its without an apostrophe means belonging to it. An
> analogue might provide a mnemonic: think of "he's" ("he is" gets an
> apostrophe) and "his" ("belonging to him" doesn't).
>
> What about its', with the apostrophe after the s? - Never, never, never.
> Wrong, wrong, wrong. Not in this language, you don't. Its, "belonging to
> it"; it's, it is. That's all. [Revised 8 June 2001.] see:
> http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/i.html
>
> Scott... you were right the first time. Same goes for "But in it's
> original form". It should be "But in its original form".
>
> Gary.
>
> "scott moore" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:DYSdne29eIKEvc_anZ2dnUVZ_tbinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Rene Kita wrote:
>>> scott moore wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.standardpascal.org
>>>
>>> Thank you for a great site. There is too little about Pascal left on
the
>>> web.
>>>
>>> Two typos, if you don't mind:
>>> *great improvement on it's successors
>>> ->great improvement on its successors
>>> http://www.standardpascal.org
>>>
>>> *renumerations
>>> ->remuneration
>>> http://www.standardpascal.org/compiler.html
>>
>> Thank you thank you, I'll fix that.
>>
>> Scott Moore
>
>
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