• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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      13 days ago

      This is the grammar thing I fuck up the most, and I don’t call people on it because I’m pretty sure I don’t know how it works. Autocorrect changes it & I just say “oh, whoops”, and it still looks wrong…

      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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        13 days ago

        it’s means “it is”. It is really not difficult, just pretend you are Data and swear off contractions.

        • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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          13 days ago

          I think the contraction vs possesive thing messes with me, and my brain can never settle on what goes where when, how, or why…

          • amelia@feddit.org
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            13 days ago

            Just try changing it to “it is”. If the sentence still makes sense, it’s “it’s”. Otherwise it’s “its”.

        • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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          13 days ago

          Ah, thanks for the reminder to look through some TNG again. Data is such a great character and fills the role of the outsider looking in perfectly.

      • everett@lemmy.ml
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        13 days ago

        Here’s a shortcut: test if you could drop “his” into the same spot and have it make sense. (And you’d definitely never write it as hi’s.) If “his” would work, “its” would work.