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Confused about the correct usage of “its” or “it’s”?

Read “An Elementary Rule of Usage” for a very funny diatribe:

Evidently, despite the sterling public and private school education provided by our fair nation, there are people — evil, ignorant, or merely misinformed, it’s not for me to say — who insist on using it’s, the possessive form of the pronoun it, when the correct form is its.

Just remember that “it’s” is a contraction, meaning “it is”.

Therefore:

It’s a fine day today;

It’s a shame she married a fool;

It’s about time you learned to do that.

And:

The car had its fender dented;

The cat got its tail caught in the door;

The rose lost its petals.

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