Smalltalk flyer, now in english too

Jason Johnson jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 8 20:17:38 UTC 2007


Ah ok.  I was thinking:  "John's main advantage", but I guess names
are the only case where possessive has the apostrophe.

On 10/8/07, Andrew Tween <amtween at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Jason Johnson" <jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:aa22f0200710081108x48ac4b16lc83af54fcb6fefae at mail.gmail.com...
> > On 10/8/07, Michael Davies <mykdavies+squeak at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> It's -> Its
> >
> > Its?  That would either be the contraction "It is" or possessive
> > "It's".  So I'm guessing "It is" no longer has an apostrophe to show
> > it's a contraction?
>
> The text is "Its main advantage".
>
> Tip: Pretend that the thing is a person and write "it" as he or his (or she
> and her)
> Then "its main advantage" would be "his main advantage".
>
> On the other hand "it's very good" would be "he's really good" i.e. "he is
> really good"
>
> If there is an apostrophe in the "he" version, then there is also an
> apostrophe in the "it" version.
> If there is no apostrophe in the "he" version then there is no apostrophe in
> the "it" version.
>
> At least that is how I remember it.
> Its [sic] easy :)
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>
>
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