r/AnimalsMonching • u/losersmanual • Jan 31 '25

Plugging a seal

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u/TheCrystalFawn91 Jan 31 '25

That seal looks awful leaky.

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u/losersmanual Jan 31 '25

It's doing its best.

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u/EquationTAKEN Jan 31 '25

First redditor I've seen use "it's" and "its" in one sentence correctly. You have my uh... seal of approval.

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u/losersmanual Jan 31 '25

Thanks, english is my 5th language.

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u/EquationTAKEN Jan 31 '25

Very nice. I'll forgive the un-capitalized E in English then.

As it is only my 3rd language, I feel responsible for your education.

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u/Kirito1548055 Feb 01 '25

As it is my 1st and only language I feel responsible for letting you 2 know as long as people understand what you're saying the small stuff doesn't matter.

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u/EquationTAKEN Feb 01 '25

True. Why waste time say many word when few word do trick?

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u/novelaissb Jan 31 '25

Why is it “its”? If we were to say “Mike’s doing Mike’s best” that would be correct, not “Mike’s doing Mikes best”. So why the apostrophe there, but not in “its”?

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u/EquationTAKEN Jan 31 '25

Simply put; "it's" is always a contraction of "it is" or "it has".

Using an apostrophe for possessives like "Mike's" is to clarify where the subject ends so you don't confuse the possessive "Mike's" with the plural "Mikes" (as in, multiple Mike).

But where it's already clear, we don't need it. Yours, ours, theirs etc. are all possessives and clear enough without it.

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u/novelaissb Jan 31 '25

Thank you

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u/Caerum Jan 31 '25

Because "it's" is "it is". And "its" is possessive, like "It is hers/his/theirs."

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u/Rin17329 4h ago

First redditor I've seen be so obsessed (affectionate) about "it's" and "its" to comment on it. I never really leave a comment about it myself, but I always get very excited when I see correct usage of it, so when I saw the above comment I was literally like "👩‍🍳👌💖" 🤣
And when I saw your comment I saw like "kindred soul :O"

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u/EquationTAKEN 4h ago

I've learned that nagging people about it when they do it wrong, is just annoying.

So I compromise by instead giving kudos when they do it right :D