It's almost a lost cause trying to get children, let alone adults, to embrace punctuation—especially the confusing terminal -s and 's.
Thanks to Uncle English for pounding it into us that singular possessives take the apostrophe + s,...then saddling us with the possessive ITS, without the apostrophe. Yay! Because we needed this.
(Before the mavens get riled, I get the reasoning; "its" is like his, hers, theirs and ours, which look like possessives ending in -s with no apostrophe. But there's no hi's, her's, their's and our's to confuse people as there is with it's. :)
People make mistakes, spelling can be forgiven. The bigger issue is that Obama's hand is behind his boot, this person imagined him holding hands (he has enough real crimes) and freaked out, magnified it, and now it's eternalised in the Q drops!
Obama's hand is behind his boot. And that's not how you use an apostrophe.
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It's almost a lost cause trying to get children, let alone adults, to embrace punctuation—especially the confusing terminal -s and 's.
Thanks to Uncle English for pounding it into us that singular possessives take the apostrophe + s,...then saddling us with the possessive ITS, without the apostrophe. Yay! Because we needed this.
(Before the mavens get riled, I get the reasoning; "its" is like his, hers, theirs and ours, which look like possessives ending in -s with no apostrophe. But there's no hi's, her's, their's and our's to confuse people as there is with it's. :)
/wordnerd
People make mistakes, spelling can be forgiven. The bigger issue is that Obama's hand is behind his boot, this person imagined him holding hands (he has enough real crimes) and freaked out, magnified it, and now it's eternalised in the Q drops!