Posted by Blinky the Shark on 07/10/07 02:25

rf 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:

Perhaps, once again, dorayme isn't thinking at all.


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