What's the three-letter word that is most often misspelled today? "Impossible," you say, "Who would have trouble with a three-letter word?" Well this word is more commonly misspelled than you might guess. It's a pronoun, commonly used. Think about it for a while, and then scroll down and see!
The word is its. It looks a bit funny standing alone, and the error many writers make is to put an apostrophe in it, so it becomes it's.
But it's is a contraction for it is or it has. The word, its, is the possessive form of it and does not include an apostrophe.This is similar to his being the possessive form of him and hers, her. No apostrophe is used for those, either.
So every time you see it's, decide whether the author meant to use the contraction properly.
There, it's off my chest, and I feel better. Man, I wish spring would get here so I could GO RIDE!
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