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It's vs. Its

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Re: It's vs. Its

#4
I have no problem remembering the rule, I absolutely recognize it immediately every time I see a misuse in someone else's writing.

The problem is, my brain wants to be able to do substitution of "'s" to "'s", as if the pronoun were a variable and thus amenable to substitution wherever the name of the thing itself could be used, so without noticing it often comes out (after substitution) as "it's".

Re: It's vs. Its

#5
post #4

I have no problem remembering the rule, I absolutely recognize it immediately every time I see a misuse in someone else's writing. The problem is, my brain wants to be able to do substitution of " 's" to " 's", as if the pronoun were a variable and thus amenable to substitution wherever the name of the thing itself could be used, so without noticing it often comes out (after substitution) as "it's".

I feel the same way as you. This is the rule in English and it seems like a bad rule.