Bengt Richter wrote: > Typos happen to all of us, but in case you hadn't realized what "it's" > is a contraction for ("it is"), now you do, and you can save yourself further > embarrassment (assuming you care ;-). > If your friends won't tell you, who will ;-) >
Making grammatical errors in the subject of a post on gramamtical errors must be embarrasing. ;-) > Write the contraction "it's" only when you want its meaning > to be "it is," otherwise it's wrong ;-) > > OTOH, how does one punctuate the posessive of a word per se? > E.g., the first letter of "it" is "i", but can one write that > as "it"'s first letter is "i," or it's first letter is "i" ? ;-) > And how many "it"s (?) are there in the previous sentence? > Don't recall an answer to this one in "Eats, Shoots and Leaves". The first one is clearer : "it"'s first letter is "i" All the best, Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk > I wonder if "Eats Leaves and Shoots" (a book on punctuation) has something on > that. > (vs, "Eats, Leaves, and Shoots" -- panda vs gunslinger). > > Regards, > Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list