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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 04/10/06 17:06
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Dylan Parry wrote:
> Pondering the eternal question of "Hobnobs or Rich Tea?", Toby Inkster
> finally proclaimed:
>
> > * -s for plural
> > * -' for posessives of nouns that already end in "s"
> > * -'s for posessives of other nouns
> >
> > tonnes of rules, yes.
>
> You forgot the caveat "possessive 'its' has no apostrophe"
Not only "its". As a general rule, possessive pronouns have no
apostrophe (my, thy, his, her, its, our, your, their). The exception
is "one's".
Of course, this assumes that the student actually knows what a pronoun
is. Perhaps that's not such a good assumption, these days.
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