Posted by Els on 04/12/06 08:19

dorayme wrote:

> In article <1aoej3zq52c81$.1l9xwq3g6b00s.dlg@40tude.net>,
> Els <els.aNOSPAM@tiscali.nl> wrote:
>
>>>>> It's quite normal practice,
>>>>
>>>> What is, not knowing the difference between a verb, noun or pronoun?
>>>
>>> Ouch! What were _you_ saying was normal practice?
>>
>> I didn't mention any normal practice :-)
>
> I was conflating - confusedly - what I thought you meant with
> what I described as normal practice.
>
> But, your surprise suggests to me I have misread you.
>
> Your actual words:
>
> "I think some people include
> * -'s for abbreviation of "is"
> * -s for possessive of pronoun "it"
>
> (which they shouldn't, but remembering the difference between
> verbs, nouns and pronouns is too complicated for some ;-) )"
>
> This sounded to me like you were saying that people should really
> not use the apostrophe for contraction of "is", that it is a bad
> rule. What is the object of your "which" in "which they
> shouldn't"? I had thought this must be either or both the rules
> you mention. Hence my original defense of the practice as being
> quite normal.
>
> Does this get me out of trouble, Els? :)

Sure does :-)
The object of my "which" was that they shouldn't include those two
rules in "the list of rules about when to use just -s or -'s on nouns"
:-)

I'd never say you can't use "'s" instead of "is", and if using just an
"s" for possessive "it" would be wrong, these last couple of posts
would never have happened ;-)

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