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In article <3fagde$ltr@crl10.crl.com>, jeremi@crl.com (William Jeremiah) writes:
|> Phil Longstaff (phill@dnbf01.dev.cdx.mot.com) wrote:
|> : Jacob C Kesinger (n9146070@janice.cc.wwu.edu) wrote:
|> : : gbaron@sparc.isl.net (Gilbert Baron) writes:
|> : : I went through and turned most of the rules off, such as
|> : : passive sentences.  (Passive sentences, BTW, are perfectly
|> : : good English, Mr. Gates).  Basically, all its used for
|> : : now is to check my punctuation (sp).
|> :                                             ^^^
|> : Don't forget to turn it on. (should be "it's").
|>
|> No actually he was right and you aren't.  Its (without) is the contraction
|> and it's (with) is the possessive.  He said "...all it is used for" which
|> required the contraction (without).  I can't think of any other word that
|> is backwards in this way.

Hmm. I think you are getting a bit confused here. None of the possesive pronouns
take possesive apostrophes. It is, however, usual to use an apostrophe in the
contraction of "it is" to "it's". Many people think that this is backwards
because they forget that "it" is a pronoun rather than a noun. Look it up in
Gower if you are in doubt.

Consider the following to illustrate the point.

He switched on his computer.
It blew its fuse.
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