Posted by Blinky the Shark on 07/10/07 03:22

rf wrote:
>
> "dorayme" <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> news:doraymeRidThis-ADA6E5.12420710072007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au...
>> 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.
>
> What?

Someone's just being dense. My example "it's their car" uses the
posessive "their", just as it should.


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