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It's vs Its - for those learning English

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I noticed there was a little bit of a controversy on one thread regarding when to use it's vs its so I thought this link might be helpful for those learning English as well as for some of us who are native English speakers lol smile

It's vs Its

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updated Dec 10, 2010
posted by Kiwi-Girl
hehe - margaretbl, Dec 9, 2010

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Permit me to offer a second link for It's vs Its.

This site has a menu of a lot of other "English Difficulties" on the side.

It contains a page on one of my pet peeves that I often find on SD posts, Everyday vs Every Day. smile

Even native English speakers who want to review their knowledge may benefit. cheese

updated Dec 10, 2010
edited by pesta
posted by pesta
Nice one Pesta :) - Kiwi-Girl, Dec 9, 2010
Review? Thank you for your generous assumption. - 0074b507, Dec 9, 2010
lol :) - Kiwi-Girl, Dec 9, 2010
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yeah i speak fluent english and i mix those up all the time!

updated Dec 10, 2010
edited by --Mariana--
posted by tuna2fish
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updated Dec 10, 2010
posted by margaretbl
lol :) - Kiwi-Girl, Dec 9, 2010
nice - 0074b507, Dec 9, 2010
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This is an interesting thread. I was always taught to use everyday (one word) to mean ordinary, routine, commonplace, as in "an everyday pair of jeans". Whereas if you are talking about frequency, then it is written separately as in "I go to the gym every day.", "The train runs every day.",

Furthermore, I was taught that in "everyday", the stress is on "ev" whereas in "every day", the stress are evenly distributed. So there should not be any confusion on spelling.

It might be useful to look in bilingual dictionaries and see how they translate this from the language into English. I checked this out in my French and German dictionaries and both confirmed that"everyday" and "every day" were not interchangeable.

updated Dec 10, 2010
posted by Pibosan
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dictionary link for everyday

everyday [??vr??de?] adj 1. happening each day; daily

updated Dec 9, 2010
posted by lorenzo9
Yes, I had also seen that. Opinios seem to differ. And language changes through usage. Thanks for posting. - pesta, Dec 9, 2010
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I think I should have a read of this too ... erm ... not because I need to .... emm ...just to check it out .... red face

updated Dec 10, 2010
posted by patch