Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Grammar Girl, Grammar Girl's, QDnow, and Quick and Dirty Tips are all trademarks of Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Can you really make “Kim Is” into “Kim's”? Ellen grammar Please fix the word "well" to read "we'll" ! It's the second word in the second paragraph. Yikes! http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=17281#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=17281#Comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:33:04 GMT QD Tips Admin grammar Thanks for the heads up, Ellen! I've corrected the typo. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=17288#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=17288#Comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:00:00 GMT Bert grammar CBL, AOP is quite right. I participate in, or at least read, many forums on the internet. I don't think I have ever read a contribution that didn't use "it's" which should have been "its", even when everything else about the contribution indicated that it was written by an intelligent, well-educated person. It's so annoying. "Its" is a possessive adjective, like my, your, his and her (though GG has called them possessive pronouns). Note that the possessive pronouns - yours, hers, ours, and theirs - don't have apostrophes either. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=17104#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=17104#Comments Fri, 22 May 2009 10:23:11 GMT Adrian Bailey grammar Except in formal writing, I recommend writing more or less how you speak. If you say "I'd've", write "I'd've". If you say "There're", write "There're", and so on. Trickier is the writing of slang forms ("I'da", "I wouldna" and so on), not because they're wrong, but because there isn't a generally accepted way of writing them and they might bring the reader up short. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=17043#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=17043#Comments Mon, 18 May 2009 19:51:59 GMT Judith Currey grammar > Nearly all the mistakes I see involving "it's" are those in which "it's"--the contraction-- is used in place of "its"-- the possessive. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=16943#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=16943#Comments Tue, 12 May 2009 18:35:41 GMT Robin Sunil Malakar grammar test mail http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=16893#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=16893#Comments Fri, 08 May 2009 21:19:23 GMT An Onymous Poster grammar CBL, "Its" is possessive; "it's" is a contraction. To help me remember that, I wrote "it's=it is" on a Post-it note and placed it on my monitor for a few months. That was 20 years ago and I can still mentally see that note. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=16854#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=16854#Comments Tue, 05 May 2009 13:35:36 GMT CBL grammar How about "it's"? #1 The Contraction: It's a long way to Denver. #2 The possessive: It's seeds are not edible. Are these both correct? http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=16846#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=16846#Comments Mon, 04 May 2009 20:59:58 GMT Doughgrl grammar I had a little chuckle, wondering if this was done on purpose: First, well talk about contractions that involve the word “is.” The "well" should be "we'll" -- I'm easily amused with these grammar oopses. :) http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=16843#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=16843#Comments Mon, 04 May 2009 16:00:45 GMT Vance grammar I do not envy the author of a grammar blog. Talk about a tough crowd... http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=16842#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx?commentid=16842#Comments Mon, 04 May 2009 14:33:07 GMT Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:33:04 GMT http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-odd-contractions.aspx feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Managing Editor) feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Webmaster) en-us