Fuzzyman wrote: > 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. ;-) > Almost as *embarrassing* as making two spelling errors in one sentence complaining about grammatical errors (though I'll charitably accept the second one as a typo, and gladly hold my hands up to being a dreadful committer of the typographical error myself). What grammatical errors were you trying to point out, by the way?
> >>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" > > Best of all is to eschew the unknown and adopt a phrasing that gives an unambiguously correct answer: 'The first letter of "it" is "i"'. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list