Bits & Pieces: Are you an idiot?

Monday, September 17, 2007

If so, then this might come in handy.

Itsits

Anonymous said...: This is not as easy to remember as the individual would have you believe. Watch. This is Mike's watch. The apostrophe denotes possession. So, the cat hurt it's feet" to mean the cat owns his own feet. So if you have trouble remembering that this is the one exception to an apostrophe showing possession then you are all right, otherwise you will still get it wrong.; 5:21 PM, September 17, 2007
Anonymous said...: The word "its" signifies possession, and needs no apostrophe. (Nor do these words need one: yours, his, hers, theirs, and ours.); 5:44 PM, September 17, 2007
Anonymous said...: he needs to do one for "your" vs. "you're"; 11:19 PM, September 17, 2007
Anonymous said...: I do NOT know why this stuff is so difficult for people to grasp. It's always boggled my mind.; 11:21 PM, September 17, 2007
Anonymous said...: WOW christiaan, mine two.; 4:13 PM, September 18, 2007
Panday said...: Do another one for "their", "there", and "they're".; 5:59 AM, September 19, 2007
Anonymous said...: how about one for the difference between "lose" and "loose"? that one spelling mistake ALWAYS drives me batty, and u see it everywhere these days, even on closed captioning, spotted it a couple times now. now, i can understand how they might think you need the double o because of the "oooo" sound, but do you spell loser with 2 o's? no, you don't.; 12:04 AM, October 03, 2007

Monday, September 17, 2007