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by shanbady • 13 years ago

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acqq• 13 years ago

Much better is:

http://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif

EduardoBautista• 13 years ago

If English is your native language and you still don't know this...

sixbrx• 13 years ago

I have no problem remembering the rule, I absolutely recognize it immediately every time I see a misuse in someone else's writing.

The problem is, my brain wants to be able to do substitution of "<named-thing>'s" to "<it>'s", as if the pronoun were a variable and thus amenable to substitution wherever the name of the thing itself could be used, so without noticing it often comes out (after substitution) as "it's".

esrauch• 13 years ago

I feel the same way as you. This is the rule in English and it seems like a bad rule.

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