Its vs. It’s: The Apostrophe Rule That Trips Everyone Up
One tiny apostrophe changes the meaning completely. Here is the one-second test that tells you which spelling you need, every single time.
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American punctuation made simple: commas and the Oxford comma, apostrophes, semicolons, colons, quotation marks and dashes, with wrong-and-right examples.
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