[Noisebridge-discuss] Grammar question regarding possessive apostrophe

[Don French]

Well, its also follows the pattern of his and hers, which is how I always
remember it -- masculine, feminine, and neuter all agree in form.

-- Don


On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Will Sargent <will.sargent at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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