Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:50:28 -0700 From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "it is" versus "it's" versus "its" Message-ID: <p05100319b7f625e4b10c@[192.168.168.205]> In-Reply-To: <20011014231830.A59462@hades.hell.gr> References: <20011014231830.A59462@hades.hell.gr>
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At 11:18 PM +0300 10/14/01, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >I think I do not like that ``it's IP address'' part, but what do you >native speakers of English think is the correct way of writing this? Here's a (possibly) useful mnemonic: "The possessive 'its', like 'his' and 'hers', needs no apostrophe." -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta/md_fb.html - The FreeBSD Browser http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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