• David Walker-278941 (9/23/2009)


    Tao Klerks (9/23/2009)


    David Walker-278941 (9/23/2009)


    Yes, but I'm not forgiving of superfluous apostrophes in the word "its". The sentence gets a Fail. "It's" means "it is" and nothing else.

    Ah but if you're going to be all finicky about it, "it's" can actually mean "it is" or "it has"...

    You're right about that, and I missed it. It's been so long since I used "it's" to mean anything other than "it is" that I forgot about that. 🙂

    Hmmmm. I hadn't noticed that error the other day when the QOD was published. I didn't retain a copy of the original text submitted a couple of months ago, so now I'm curious as to whether its extraneous apostophe is my error or it's something that was introduced by SSC in the editing process. I hope that last sentence demonstrates that I do understand the difference between "it's" and "its".

    Meanwhile, was the parsing exercise valuable to you? Did you learn something?