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7-Wonderful Language English From "The Spellbrainer" (1) Its and It is
Other examples of the possessive "its" could include the dog burying its bone in its backyard and the table which has its leg broken off and its table cloth in need of ironing. "its" is a contraction. A contraction is when a new word is formed from two or more separate words. In English, an apostrophe is used to acknowledge the missing letters. "Don't" is a contraction of "do not" and "shouldn't" is a contraction of 'should not'. In the same way "Its" is a short for 'it is', or less frequently for "it has". Any time "its" includes an apostrophe, the writer should be able to substitute "It is" or 'it has" and have the sentence still make sense. "It's going to be my birthday tomorrow" is correct because it can be changed to "It is going to be my birthday tomorrow. "It's been two hours since I have eaten," can be verified since changing it to "It has been two hours since I have eaten" is still correct. Therefore, it's easy to get the two words mixed up, because English does not always follow its own rules. (2) Anyone vs any one
(3) Do the quotes go after
or before the full stop?
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Created by Sushma Gupta on January 15, 2002
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01/28/13