Of course they’re related, but ancient texts are hardly perfect exemplars of correctness, since there really were no fixed standards hundreds of years ago. Shakespeare himself – or at least, his publishers – printed his name at least half a dozen different ways. The revered founding documents of the USA – the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution itself – contain numerous grammatical and orthographic anomalies. Indeed, the misplaced commas in the Second Amendment have been the subject of a great deal of debate.
I give passes to two things:
- I try to use its vs it’s properly, but phone autocorrect is so horrible about doing it correctly that I can also assume the person may have not screwed it up, I give less of a mercy to there/their/they’re etc.
- If a fruit stand is advertising “cherrie’s”, you know they’ll at least be delicious.
Not here, however. Unless you meant to say it is place.
I assume it was a joke, but you never know…
Anyway, I often remind myself that “it’s” always means “it is”, never the possessive.
That makes sense.
I loves me some Dead Monkey Head ice cream! Yum.
Gotcha ya.
What’s the dillyo, yo?
I have stolen all the apostrophes. No more apostrophes for any of you. I have put them in a safe place, and you will never guess where that is.
(actually, you will – it is just too obvious)
So this morning I was stopped at a red light, and I noticed an LED sign in front of an insurance agency advertising that they also offer some DMV services. Including “Tag’s renewal”. I wonder who this Tag person is, and why they’re specifically advertising their renewal.
One grocer’s apostrophe that was amusing to me was on a sign advertising English literacy courses. I can’t remember the exact phrasing though.
That’s genius. Gives credibility that you can abuse the language just like a native speaker!
It surely must have mentioned “English lesson’s”!
“Improve You’re English!”
“S’peak English gooder.”
That one makes perfect sense, except it’s missing either a period or an additional exclamation mark:
“Improve! You’re English!”.
Shame on you for needing English lesson’s! Those are for foreigner’s.
The English lesson’s teacher is incompetent.
That just gave me the idea of a sign that’s reads
The
English lesson’s
over here.
" Trump Attacks El-Sayed’s Wife"? Yeah, that does look right.
Trump never learns his lesson’s.