On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:24:50PM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > On 9/4/06, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > >>.. it's existence. .. > > > >I am embarrassed at how frequently I fall into the incorrect use of an > >apostrophe in _its_ (thinking I'm supposed to use apostrophes for > >possessive). > > > >Dose anyone have any mnemonic tricks for correcting such grammar slips? > > Dese and Dose are some of the rules: > > "it's" stands for "it is" or possibly "it has". If that is not what > you meant to say then you are about to use the wrong word. It's as > simple as that.
But 's is used for the possessive quite a bit. I constantly get confused about apostrophes, too. How would you indicate the possessive form for a group of Mercedes Benz(es? s?)? :-) -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
