Mark,
Just back from Cuba and tackled your English - As I am English, it's
an absolute doddle. The its and it's is simple - all you have to do
is recognise (spelt with an "s" - as that is the English way) that
it's is a shortened version of it is. If you want more
elucidation then remember that its is the same as yours, or theirs,
or his. In the words of Monty Python "...it's all very simple really".
Now if you want a challenges - What about affect and effect ????
By the way, saw Morris Minor 1000, 4/44 MG Magnette, Austin
Westminister, Hillman Minx, Ford Anglia, Singer 1500- all 50's
vintage - but not one MG TC/TD/A/B
At 07:16 PM 4/3/2010, Mark J Bradakis wrote:
>I sometimes wonder just how many folks who claim English
>as their primary language could do this correctly:
>
>Put these three words into the appropriate blanks of the given
>sentence:
>
>their there they're
>
>_____ over ____ with ____ stuff.
>
>
>Sorry to be an unrelenting member of the grammar
>police, heaven knows I have more serious Team.Net stuff
>that needs attention. Maybe I'm just grumpy because as
>Spring rolls into the Northern Hemisphere with its
>warming weather I still don't have an LBC to drive!
>
>mjb.
>
>PS: Anyone up for a lecture on "its" vs. "it's" ?
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Barrie
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