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Posted by dorayme on 07/10/07 02:42
In article <zCBki.5343$4A1.1083@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"rf" <rf@invalid.com> wrote:
> "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote in message
> news:a79bd$4692e055$40cba7c2$18752@NAXS.COM...
> > dorayme wrote:
> >> In article <slrnf95kfi.me5.no.spam@thurston.blinkynet.net>,
> >> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
> >>
> >>> "there". "their" is a possessive, as in "it's their new car".
> >>
> >> You sure about this?
> >>
> > Yup. *it's* contraction of *it is* and *their* is the possessive form of
> > *they*. Seems correct to me.
>
> Perhaps dorayme is thinking about the third flavour, as in:
>
> It's there, their new car, _they're_ about to open its doors. There, it's
> done, its doors're open.
Now this is getting closer.
Blinkey's was a lesson (see his "as in") on the use of the
apostrophe using a contraction example rather than one of
possession.
(rf, a couple of things, one of them a 'btw', making it hard to
know whether to use a <ul>, an <ol> or neither (what do the
standards say?): <ul><li>"doors're open"?</li><li>Watch the
tennis the other night?</li></ul>)
--
dorayme
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