That, and you posted KAy.

Hi, my name is Graham Arian, professor of literature at Yale University and syndicated writer for The Post.

*giggle*

~Artemis

KAy... don;t even start makign fun of my spelling lol

I know, but I still say me and [so-and-so] because it's more natural and how I speak in real life.

fredy, a semicolon is for sentence structure definition. An apostrophe denotes ownership, either of a quote or an object, or an abbreviated phrase, such as "it's" meaning "it is".

Look, boys and girls, if we're going to start debating grammar (spelling is a subclass of grammar) I will own each and every one of you.

Shall we begin?

~Artemis

Let's see. I always have good grammar. Except on the computer, I tend to ignore the usual conventions of the English language.

XD

*cries in a corner*

I hate you all.

Die. In a fire.

*cries himself to sleep*

... I need to get out more.

~Artemis

Me + Keyboard = 1337 talk and bad grammar and spelling

I have no more blood to shed.

You have all become probable sacrifices to Anthrocoatl.

~Artemis

(Yeah, I'm bored. )

lol it is written as it's definitely DOES NOT denote ownership. It is a shortened form for simplicity and fluidity of language.

its on the other hand, is indicative of the possesive case which denotes ownership.

See the difference:

1. it's

It is going to be a sunny day. OR
It's going to be a sunny day.

2. its

The cow chewed on its food.

Yes. That's what I'm saying. (PS: We call those things "contractions".)



Yups.



However, its is a special case. For example, if I were going to give Kay the ownership of an object, it would be Kay's object. Furthermore, if I then stole that object back, it would be Artemis' object. Its, being a possessive pronoun, is actually a seperate word from it, much as his is. We don't say he's. We say his. Thus, we don't say it's. We say its. This applies to all possessive pronouns.

Also, note that possessive has four Ss, not three.

My hubris is calmed now.

~Artemis

Hubris sounds dirty.

Anyway, yeah, let's get SZ kickin' again. Somehow. What, I'm just trying to motivate.


Last Edit: Nov 17, 2006 0:24:09 GMT by Ess Ohh

Hubris is an overly complicated way to say pride. Are you Greek or something Artemis, 'cause that's where I last heard the term "hubris" used.

lol good for yu.

But I ALREADY KNOW EVERYTHING YOU JUST EXPLAINED



my sole point to make was that it is written as it's does not denote ownership. thats it. Here the apostrophe is functionally purely to indicate a deliberate omission of a letter. Other than that all places an apostrophe pretty much does everything you want.