Apostrophes. P.S. I am a bitch.

[13chapters]

Attn: humans of the internet. It has come to my attention that many people do not know how to use apostrophes. Especially with regard to the third person inanimate possessive pronoun.

The word "it's" is used only as a contraction of the phrase "it is". If you're using it to designate possession, you're doing it wrong

Comments

[call_me_ps]

I'm with you on this. My fingers will get ahead of my brain sometimes and I'll do this accidentally but it's one of the typos that I am absolutely DRIVEN to go back and edit whenever I notice I've done it because it drives. me. mad. Also, you're/your (same concept re: contractions versus possession).

[fromageordeath]

Your not wrong. Its crazee how sum peephole cant right.

[13chapters]

I hate you.

[fromageordeath]

Nah, you know you love me!

[13chapters]

I used to, but then you went to Brussels and left me all alone. I'm bored.

[stripedsockscat]

When I type fast I mess up its and it's and usually only notice after I've hit send or post and I hate myself for it every time.

The one that pisses me off the most is they're, their, there or your, you're. How do people still not know these?

If I get a text from a guy that has the wrong usage of your/you're, it totally turns me off. I'll stop dating someone over it.

[call_me_ps]

While I support you in this in every way, sadly this conversation has made me realize my husband abuses your/you're horribly and now I'm wondering if that wasn't an early warning sign I shouldn't have ignored...

[13chapters]

If I get a text from a guy that has the wrong usage of your/you're, it totally turns me off. I'll stop dating someone over it.

Haha, I don't blame you.

[probing_grays]

Your location made me laugh IRL.

(I totally resisted the temptation to go "you're" there. JSYK.)

[13chapters]

Thank you for resisting the temptation, bb.

[probing_grays]

You're welcome bb.

(See? Resisted again.)

I want you to know that I was looking through Berkeley's catalog and saw a course with this grammatical error in its title.

[13chapters]

You know how there's always a banner for something or other over the entrance to the Union? There was one with a grammatical error in it not too long ago (I forget what it was exactly) and I cringed every time I saw it until they replaced it with something new.

[pixymisa]

You seem to have an excess of commas, there. I've been told that a final punctuation mark, like an exclamation point or question mark, is final. Like so:

Bad: "It's such a nice day, Sam!," said Dean.

Good: "It's such a nice day, Sam!" said Dean.

[13chapters]

I couldn't decide with that one. I think it's a stylistic choice. I've seen it both ways.

[pixymisa]

I've seen it both ways, too, and I'm sure it is a stylistic choice, but it's a more archaic style and is never used in published prose. Copy editors correct that sort of thing, Anna says, and she was a copy editor so I trust her knowledge. (I've seen it used mostly in academic writing. Personally, I don't like it. It looks ugly and clunky and amateurish.)

[13chapters]

I've seen it used mostly in academic writing.

HA that may be why it seemed like the way to go to me. Academic writing and fanfic are all I read these days.

What happened to the days when I read novels? *mourns*