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The It's vs. Its page ... If you can replace it[']s in your sentence with it is or it has, then your word is it's; otherwise, your word is its ... The Word Detective may surprise you with his history of it's and its.
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www.stormloader.com/garyes/its.html
www.stormloader.com/garyes/its.html
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Limelight is our industry blog ... Examples: "The dog keeps scratching its neck." "Hold it by its handle." ... "Its" is the exception to the apostrophe-s ownership rule. An easy way to remember this is the phrase, "the contract with contractions is that there must always be an apostrophe."
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www.suite101.com/blog/kimberlydawn/356
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"Its" is a possessive pronoun. "It's" is a contraction of "it is." ... Its is a possessive pronoun. It's is a contraction of "it is" or occasionally "it has." The apostrophe in it's is a mark of omission, not possession.
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grammar.about.com/od/words/a/itsgloss.htm
grammar.about.com/od/words/a/itsgloss.htm
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For those that can dig it, here's the scoop: These two usages bust wide open the usual pattern that distinguishes between the possessive form versus the contraction of "it is." Incredibly, grammarians long ago decided to aggravate us with the following exception to their ... It's not just its and it's (18+ / 0-)
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www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/1/153224/474
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For those that can dig it, here's the scoop: These two usages bust wide open the usual pattern that distinguishes between the possessive form versus the contraction of "it is." Incredibly, ... Conclusion: Never start a conclusion by saying, "conclusion." Oh, and if everybody uses "it's" and "its" properly, then it won't...
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www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/1/153224/474/289/416...
www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/1/153224/474/289/416675
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Tip 35: Its versus it's; See page 209 of your Brief English Handbook on the difference between it's and its. Its is a possessive, it's is a contraction of it is. See your Brief English Handbook more generally for when to use apostrophes.
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humanities.ucsd.edu/writing/onlinetutor/p4its.htm
humanities.ucsd.edu/writing/onlinetutor/p4its.htm
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Its versus It's AppleOutsider ... One of the definitiions of the Webster's (notice the apostrophe?) Third New International Dictionary; still the standard in these matters, has as one of the expressions of its: it's \"\ adj [by alter.] its;
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forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?p=787615
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e Learn English Language > English Difficulties > It's vs Its ... The confusion between it's and its occurs because on virtually every other word 's indicates possession, so English speakers naturally want to use it's to mean "something belonging to it." But it's is only used when it's a contraction of it is or it has.
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www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/its.html
www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/its.html
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After getting rather tired of seeing "it's" being used when "its" was called for, I decided to keep track of instances of this misuse that I run into on the web. It seems that many people just don't realize that the only time "it's" is needed is when the words "it" and "is" (or "has") are being contracted.
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www.fred.net/kathy/its.html
www.fred.net/kathy/its.html
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