it's / its
The rule: if the word does not stand for “it is” or “it has” then what you require is “its”.
“This is extremely easy to grasp. Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, “Good food at it’s best”, you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.” – Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, pp. 43 – 44.
posted by Natalie @ 1:46 pm
10 Comments:
Remember what Strongbad said:
"If it's possessive, it's just i-t-s, but it's supposed to be a contraction it's i-t-apostrophe-s!"
Its important to put apostrophe’s in the right place...
apostrophe's what?
grrrrr...
"If you still persist in writing, “Good food at it’s best”, you deserve to be struck by lightening, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave."
Oh the irony in this stinging critique of grammer, Lynne Truss truly has no scruple's here. God forbid I be struck by "The sensation of decreased abdominal distention during the latter weeks of pregnancy following the descent of the fetal head into the pelvic inlet"
See "lightening":
http://www.answers.com/topic/lightening?cat=health
okay,
1) i am unimpressed with your trying to sound clever
2) it was a spelling error on my part, when i entered the text into my computer. so don't blame lynn.
boys....*sigh*
I choose to interpret that as
"Boys... *swoon*"
so's your face
boys are stupid.
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