# Quick Grammar Help

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-grammar-help/634570>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 13, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-grammar-help/634570 "2012-09-13T03:15:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-grammar-help/634570/21 "2012-09-17T19:26:49Z")

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> [@Gary\_T](#):
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> Are you serious? Any native English speaker is overwhelmingly familiar with _that’s_ as a contraction for _that is.__It’s_ and _it is_ have nothing to do with this, and I have to wonder why you even mentioned them. “That’s it” simply means “that is it.” It’s perfectly correct and quite common. Other examples of this use of _that’s_ include “that’s the ticket,” “that what he said,” and “that’s the way I like it.” The apostrophe in _that’s_ most certainly does **NOT** represent possession/belonging in this context and it’s absolutely ludicrous to assert that it does. What have you been smoking, dude?

I was assuming that was meant in playfully teasing jest of **Old Red** ’s post, but I could be wrong.

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**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-grammar-help/634570/22 "2012-09-17T19:33:52Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> I was assuming that was meant in playfully teasing jest of **Old Red** ’s post, but I could be wrong.

You’re probably right, I really did wonder if it was serious or not because it was so out there.

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