Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:18:30 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: "it is" versus "it's" versus "its" Message-ID: <20011014231830.A59462@hades.hell.gr>
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In en_US.ISO8859-7/articles/diskless-x/article.sgml, I can read:
4 $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/diskless-x/article.sgml,v 1.5 2001/07/06 13:02:54 dd Exp $
...
229 <row>
230 <entry><literal>ip=199.246.76.2</literal></entry>
231 <entry>tells the client what it's IP address is.</entry>
232 </row>
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?
+ its IP address?
+ its' IP address?
Or is it correct as it is, and it's only me being anal retentive?
I think I have read somewhere that the first form is correct for
indicating `possession', but I can not remember where and when!
-giorgos
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