{"id":737,"date":"2012-04-12T17:35:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T23:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2021-07-07T10:40:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T15:40:13","slug":"1-grammar-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/pronouns\/1-grammar-error\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Its<\/em> vs. <em>It&#8217;s<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to know the number one grammatical error?<strong><br \/>\nHint:<\/strong> The word involved is small and it&#8217;s contained in this sentence.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right: <strong>its vs. it&#8217;s<\/strong><br \/>\nYet the two rules are actually quite easy to remember.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule 1:<\/strong> When you mean <em>it is<\/em> or <em>it has<\/em>, use an apostrophe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples:<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a nice day.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s your right to refuse the invitation.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s been great getting to know you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule 2:<\/strong> When you are using <em>its<\/em> as a possessive, don&#8217;t use the apostrophe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe cat hurt its paw.<br \/>\nThe furniture store celebrated its tenth anniversary.<br \/>\n<strong>Note: <\/strong>From what we understand, the possessive was also written <em>it\u2019s<\/em> until a couple of hundred years ago. While we don\u2019t know for certain, it is possible that the apostrophe was dropped in order to parallel possessive personal pronouns like <em>hers, theirs, yours<\/em>, <em>ours, <\/em>etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"_textcenter\">\n<h6 class=\"content_footer_title title -sub\">Are you ready for the quiz?<\/h6>\n<p><a class=\"content_post_footer_button button -alt\" href=\"\/grammar_quiz\/its_1.asp\" title=\"Its vs. It's Quiz\">Its vs It&#8217;s Quiz<\/a><\/br>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you like to know the number one grammatical error? Hint: The word involved is small and it&#8217;s contained in this sentence. That&#8217;s right: its vs. it&#8217;s Yet the two rules are actually quite easy to remember. Rule 1: When you mean it is or it has, use an apostrophe. Examples: It&#8217;s a nice day. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,34,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apostrophes","category-possessives","category-pronouns"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5156,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/5156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}