[Replicant] Draft letter to Texas Instruments

Nick replicant at njw.name
Tue Dec 15 12:09:10 CET 2015


Hi Josh,

Quoth Josh Branning:
> On 15/12/15 04:12, Peter Olson wrote:
> >>On December 14, 2015 at 9:39 PM Josh Branning <lovell.joshyyy at gmail.com>
> >>wrote: 
> >>longer produces these commercially, but could easily support it's older
> >
> >Just a typo: "it's" should be "its" ("it's" means "it is").
> >
> >Peter Olson
> >
> 
> Hmm, I thought you write "it's", also for when it belongs to the noun in
> question.
> 
> e.g. this is Peter Olson's correction of Josh's grammar?

Nope, Peter is correct. "It's" is an exception to the normal rules 
about apostrophe use for belonging.

"It's" is only used as a shorter form of "it is", otherwise its 
always "its".

Nick


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