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Old 09-20-2011, 03:04 AM   #80
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
But that's precisely the point: possessive pronouns don't have apostrophes. Why do people seem to think that "its" is an exception? It isn't.
People think that you say Fred's when something belongs to Fred, so you say it's when something belongs to it. I can understand why it's confusing.

The other place people often use apostrophes is for things like 2's and 3's, where 2s and 3s somehow looks wrong - as if there's something missing.
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