Originally posted by matt
😮 Oh my that is advanced..
Something from the Times of India, its kind of sad but well it points out something as most political cartoons do, and one thing i learnt in history was to apreciate a political cartoonists.
[begin rant]
There is very poor grammar being used in that cartoon. Shame on you, Times of India 😉
“It’s” is ONLY used as a contraction of “It is”, never to indicate possession.
The correct form is always “Its”.
The apostrophe for genitive case (possession) is a relic of the days when English had different endings for different cases. The genitive ending was often “-es”
So “God” became “Godes” or “Goddes” in the genitive, with the “e” pronounced. (God – Es)
Then the final e became silent, and eventually it became the custom to leave it out and put an apostrophe in its place.
So now we say “God’s”…
But as “Its” was never shortened from “Ites”, why would it gain an apostrophe?
“Him” becomes “His” in genitive, you don’t write “Hi’s”…..
[end rant]
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