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« International English Style | Main | Use the Inverted Pyramid; or, "Cut to the chase" »
Saturday
11Mar2006

Those darn apostrophes

Try to follow along:

It’s is not, it isn’t ain’t, and it’s it’s, not its, if you mean it is. If you don’t, it’s its.

Then too, it’s hers. It isn’t her’s.

It isn’t our’s either. It’s ours, and likewise yours and theirs.

- Oxford University Press, Edpress News

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