• BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    Tbh the possesive form of “it” is a bitch. For all other words you do 's to indicate possession, but for this exact word you leave out the apostrophe. Whether vs weather, their, there, vs they’re, or your vs you’re, they all have nothing on this contra intuitive POS of a rule.

    Also the correct response to your comment would be: always has been

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      12 hours ago

      For all other words you do 's to indicate possession

      Only if the words are nouns, not for pronouns. “Its” is a possessive pronoun, like his, hers, ours, yours, theirs. None of those words use apostrophes.

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        10 hours ago

        Motherforking shirtballs! You made it make sense. Of cause “it” is a pronoun, and thus follows pronoun rules. Thank you.

    • kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml
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      13 hours ago

      it’s interesting how non-native speakers almost never confuse those though

      we make other kinds of mistakes, personally i really struggle with prepositions in every one of my non-native languages, because my native language doesn’t have them, but has a weird suffix system instead