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October 19, 2005
Reader Corrects Bad Grammar
And I thank him for it. Brian sent us an email after noticing how we've improperly used "its" and "it's" in our writing. When to use one over the other? He sent over a handy-dandy rule and we love him for it.
"The best way to remember which one to use is to put 'his' instead of 'it's'. If you would use 'his' then you would use 'its' because there's no such word as 'hi's'."
See we always sort of knew something was wrong with it but figured some reader will catch it and tell us. In our minds, we use "it's" to show possession when really it's a contraction.
The results have been two-fold. One, all blog entries have been re-checked and corrected. Two, this makes us feel good because in order for someone to catch the numerous incorrect usage of the contraction, they would have had to actually read the blog.
Again, thank you Brian for the tip and for reading! You're rule makes a whole-lot more sense than that "i before e" crap. :)
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