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From: halle1@houxz.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: feeling/being left out
Message-ID: <392@houxz.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Aug-83 13:03:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 12 13:03:35 1983
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References: <1707@umcp-cs.UUCP> 	"Will each student put it's book on the shelf."
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	How clean and simple.  Much shorter than "he/she".

	Bonus side effect:  maybe people will even learn the distinction
	between "it's" and "its" . . . (probably not).

I hope they do learn the difference, but not from you, because you
obviously do not know the difference.  It's, that is, with the
apostrophe, is the contraction of it is.  There is no other meaning.
Its without the apostrophe is the possesive of it.  The plural of it,
that is more than one it, where it is a noun, probably should also have
an apostrophe, although rules here can differ.  (There are three it's in
the last sentence.)

I learned the difference the easy way: in senior English, if you got this one
wrong, the paper was an F, regardless.