Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:43:15 +0000 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "it is" versus "it's" versus "its" Message-ID: <20011014234320.3124D3E01@bazooka.trit.org> In-Reply-To: <20011014231830.A59462@hades.hell.gr>; from charon@labs.gr on "Sun, 14 Oct 2001 23:18:30 %2B0300"
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Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> wrote: > In en_US.ISO8859-7/articles/diskless-x/article.sgml, I can read: > > 4 $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/diskless-x/article.sgml,v > 1.5 2001/07/06 13:02:54 dd Exp $ > ... > 229 <row> > 230 <entry><literal>ip=199.246.76.2</literal></entry> > 231 <entry>tells the client what it's IP address is.</entry> > 232 </row> > > I think I do not like that ``it's IP address'' part, but what do you > native speakers of English think is the correct way of writing this? > > + its IP address? > + its' IP address? > > Or is it correct as it is, and it's only me being anal retentive? > I think I have read somewhere that the first form is correct for > indicating `possession', but I can not remember where and when! "its" is the possessive form of "it"; "it's" is the contraction of "it is". Thus, in the above, s/it's/its/ is appropriate. Also note that using contractions in documentation is somewhat discouraged since it can be harder to understand for non-native English speakers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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