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Difference between its and it's
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>I noiticed recently that my son's teacher spelled "yogurt" wrongly in the paper distributed to homes...

Between Canada, US and Britain, there must be at least 10 different "acceptable" ways of spelling yogourt (acceptable canadian version) . I would not be surprised of the spelling used in the paper was also an acceptable version.

>>>Hi everybody,
>>>
>>>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.
>>
>>Tamar
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>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...
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