>>Hi everybody,
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>>Just curious how many of you know when to use its and when it's? I see a wrong usage in native speakers' texts quite often...
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>I do, but until I started writing and editing regularly, I had to stop and think about it every time. I finally figured out that the possessive "its" matches up with "his" and "hers" and thus doesn't need an apostrophe.
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>Tamar

My former manager once told me, that two most common mistakes native speakers do are "it's/its" wrong usage and using word "irregardless" <g>

I noiticed recently that my son's teacher spelled "yogurt" wrongly in the paper distributed to homes...