From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Tony Williams wrote:
> Don Hills wrote:
>
>> In article ,
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote:
>>
>>> Nothing fancy, and the German's are correct!!
>>
>>
>>
>> ... But you aren't. You have a touch of greengrocer's apostrophe.
>>
>
> I've heard them called "feral apostrophes"; they breed on
greengrocers'
> blackboards.
>
> I had an English teacher who made the whole class chant "'I', 'T',
> apostrophe, 'S' always means 'it is'", for about five minutes.
>
> A five minute lesson and the rule was learned for life, but I'm not at
> all sure how to handle the quoting in the preceding sentence.
>

Yup.

It's
Its'
It'es.

Adam

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