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Old 09-20-2011, 04:13 AM   #83
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Just think of "his" as a comparison. I'm sure you wouldn't be tempted to write "hi's", would you?
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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.
Cough. One's friends might think that your rule on possessive pronouns has an exception.
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