[Noisebridge-discuss] Grammar question regarding possessive apostrophe

[Will Sargent]

It should be the latter.  Weight "belongs to" a person.

"its" is the exception only because "it's" is a contraction of "it is", and
is more frequently used.

UK has the same rules as US in this -- at least, at the schools I went to.

Will.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Michael Shiloh
<michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Normally the apostrophe is used to indicate possessive, but I know there
> are many exceptions, such as "its", most of which I don't understand.
>
> Ran across this in an otherwise excellently written document, which made
> me wonder if it's an exception:
>
>
>        "Strong enough to take a persons weight.
>
> or should it be
>
>        "Strong enough to take a person's weight.
>
> What rule do you follow?
>
> Would this be different in the UK?
>
> Thanks
> M
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