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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!comlab.ox.ac.uk!carroll
  2. From: carroll@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Carroll Morgan)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
  4. Subject: English usage
  5. Keywords: Its and it's
  6. Message-ID: <1992Aug26.141105.424@client61.comlab.ox.ac.uk>
  7. Date: 26 Aug 92 14:11:05 GMT
  8. Sender: carroll@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Carroll Morgan)
  9. Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
  10. Lines: 6
  11. Originator: carroll@client61.comlab
  12.  
  13. In written English, at the moment anyway, "its" means "belonging to it", and "it's"
  14. means "it is". Thus for example 
  15.  
  16.     Its orange? It's orange!
  17.  
  18. Carroll Morgan
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