Comments on: Sometimes It’s “Its” http://onehundredfortywords.com/2009/09/25/sometimes-its-its/ about making stuff that helps people learn Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Judy Unrein http://onehundredfortywords.com/2009/09/25/sometimes-its-its/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Judy Unrein Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:38:21 +0000 http://onehundredfortywords.com/?p=826#comment-149 Hehe, Diane -- ID's vs IDs is serious tomato/tomahtoe territory! =) And I'm comfortable with my non-use of apostrophes in the pluralization of acronyms, but I still went looking on the Internet and found a grammar site with a poll. I could while away some serious time with this stuff. http://www.usingenglish.com/poll/85.html I like that method and it has always worked for me. I'm not sure I've ever heard of a different one, though... and with the amount of confusion there is on this topic, I'm thinking maybe I'll try to come up with a new one. Or sponsor a contest here... would <a href="http://alcorn-ward.com/" rel="nofollow">Alcorn, Ward, & Partners</a> care to donate at the Grammar Guru level? ;) Hehe, Diane — ID’s vs IDs is serious tomato/tomahtoe territory! =) And I’m comfortable with my non-use of apostrophes in the pluralization of acronyms, but I still went looking on the Internet and found a grammar site with a poll. I could while away some serious time with this stuff. http://www.usingenglish.com/poll/85.html

I like that method and it has always worked for me. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of a different one, though… and with the amount of confusion there is on this topic, I’m thinking maybe I’ll try to come up with a new one. Or sponsor a contest here… would Alcorn, Ward, & Partners care to donate at the Grammar Guru level? ;)

]]> By: Diane Elkins http://onehundredfortywords.com/2009/09/25/sometimes-its-its/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Diane Elkins Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:25:22 +0000 http://onehundredfortywords.com/?p=826#comment-148 Don't you mean ID's? (hehe). Seriously, one way to remember the difference between it's and its is to thing about he's and his. Most people don't get that one confused. If you'd use an apostrophe with "he," then you'd use it with "it" in the same context. Don’t you mean ID’s? (hehe). Seriously, one way to remember the difference between it’s and its is to thing about he’s and his. Most people don’t get that one confused. If you’d use an apostrophe with “he,” then you’d use it with “it” in the same context.

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