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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's really not hard to remember. None of the personal pronouns (my, his, her, its, ours, yours, theirs) have apostrophes. If you're not tempted to put an apostrophe in "his", there's really no reason why you should be tempted by "its"  . |
Ignoring what HarryT writes and typing too fast is what does it most of the time. Something I can't understand about this thread: is anyone writing without their spell checker? Word for Mac finds even those miscreant apostrophes.
I haven't studied English Literature for decades but does anyone know what writers like Defoe, Austen, the Brontes, Dickens and Twain did for an editor? Their language and styles are less consistent than edited modern books but they are still readable after all these years, still popular and still have something to add. I wonder, are we expecting too much of modern writers or too little of modern readers?