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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:03:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120813090338.5b9d6cdd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201208130243.44931.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>

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On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:43:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> It's easy enough: "its" = "belonging to it"; "it's" = "it is/was/has". 
> The apostrophe denotes a missing letter or two, not possession.

The confusion arises because, when used with a name, an apostrophe is
needed for a possessive. Of course, if you refer to everyone as "it",
the confusion disappears :)
 
It is an understandable error, unlike grocers' apostrophe's, which crop
up everywhere and are far more grating for me.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Don't let your mind wander, it's too little to be let out alone.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-13  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-12  0:09 [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12  1:33 ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-12  1:41   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12  2:28     ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-12  3:10       ` Dale
2012-08-13  9:18         ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-08-13 11:21           ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-12  9:47 ` Alex Schuster
2012-08-12 10:01   ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-12 13:31     ` Mick
2012-08-12 22:52       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12 23:08         ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-13  1:43           ` Peter Humphrey
2012-08-13  8:03             ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-08-13 17:43               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-14  0:16               ` [OT] " Peter Humphrey
2012-08-14  7:32                 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-12 23:14         ` Dale
2012-08-13 17:46           ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-13 21:31             ` Mick
2012-08-12 18:52 ` Michael Mol
2012-08-12 19:34   ` Mick
2012-08-12 20:06     ` Michael Mol

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