> > Don't even get me started on "its" versus "it's", which even people who write or edit for a living can't seem to get straight nowadays. If I start on that topic, I'm liable to start foaming at the mouth and calling upon the patron saints of grammar to inflict plagues upon various and sundry offenders. :-)
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> > Iss "...but we could always solve the problem by changing both words to "iss" "achar
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> I thought it's was a conjuction of it and is. Its means that something belongs to it. When most nouns are given possesion of something it is done with the "'s" (i.e. Joe's comic book, the cat's toy) but since it's means it is the possessive form of it had to be its. I think

Sort of, but the wrong reason. Correct, it's is a contraction (not conjunction - that's different) of it is (or it has), and its is the possessive. But not for that reason. The reason the posessive is "its" is because "it" is a pronoun. Pronouns *never* take apostrophes in the possessive - my, his, her, their, our, its.