--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: <snip> > > It's not true, no matter what you might have heard. > > The misuse of 'its' and 'it's' is one of the easiest > > ways to tell whether a writer of English cares enough > > about the readers of his or her writing to use it > > properly. I would venture to say that there is no > > book of English grammar out there that presents > > this misuse as "acceptable." > > Please Barry, I was referring to the German use. Here again: > Apostrophe is correct for German possessive (genitive) > Example: Michael's Brief > Correct English: Michaels post.
Nonono! "Michael's post" is correct in English. But no apostrophe is used with the pronoun: "Michael's post is very long, but it's not long enough to cover its topic." "It's" is a contraction of "it is" (or "it has"); "its" is the possessive. "Its" is like "his" and "hers" and "theirs." But unfortunately you'll see not only "it's" for the possessive, but also "her's" and "their's" sometimes.
