• metaStatic@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    The beauty of it’s women and the quality of it’s cuisine makes the British the best sailors in the world

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      10 months ago

      The beauty of it is women and the quality of it is cuisine makes the British the best sailors in the world

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        Its vs it’s got me for a long time. I want to add the apostrophe because it’s possessive, but possessive pronouns are an exception and don’t need one. Think of his, hers, yours, theirs. All are possessive but don’t need the apostrophe.

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          Yeah, English has loads of absolutely mental rules that don’t make sense if you think about them, often for quite interesting historical reasons!