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Originally Posted by mrscoach
The problem a lot have with 'its' and 'it's' is they are usesd to thinking of 's at the end signifying possession. With its and it's it is just the opposite.
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It's an unfortunate "coincidence" that "it's" is a common contraction in English. Were it not so, the fact that no possessive pronoun has an apostrophe would probably mean that people would be no more tempted to put an apostrophe in the word "its" than they would in the related word "his".