Actually, "its" is the possessive adjective, "it's" is a contraction of "it is" or "it has".
The "of it" bit would be included in "its".
Gregory ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevertigo" utilitymuffinresearch2@yahoo.com To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 11:34 AM Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Apostrophe's
--- David Friedland david@nohat.net wrote:
(with it's shiny new logo)
- David [[User:Nohat]]
ITS shiny new logo. ITS ITS ITS.
Excuse me while I punish myself for my apostrophe-itis breakout.
Actually you're correct -- there are *three forms : Its, it's, (of it) and the contraction of it is - it's.
I think ~S~
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