{"id":5,"date":"2002-07-19T00:43:53","date_gmt":"2002-07-19T00:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bdragon.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2011-03-30T23:29:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T05:29:45","slug":"a-grammar-lesson-maybe-youre-its-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/2002\/07\/a-grammar-lesson-maybe-youre-its-target\/","title":{"rendered":"A Grammar Lesson: Maybe you’re its target?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Honestly people (well, some of you)… it’s really quite easy to figure out when to use the words “it’s<\/b>“, “its<\/b>“, “you’re<\/b>” or “your<\/b>“.<\/p>\n

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\nThere’s a very simple secret when deciding whether to use “it’s” or “it’s” — never ever ever use “it’s” unless you are intending to say “it is” or “it has”. Easy! It is similar with “you’re” vs. “your” – if you are intending to say “you are” then by all means, write “you’re”.<\/p>\n

\nINCORRECT<\/b>:<\/p>\n

\nThe monkey sniffed it’s butt.<\/b><\/p>\n

\n(the monkey sniffed IT IS butt?? I don’t think so…)<\/p>\n

\nCORRECT<\/b>:<\/p>\n

\nThe monkey sniffed its butt.<\/b><\/p>\n

\nINCORRECT<\/b>:<\/p>\n

\nYour a dipwad.<\/b><\/p>\n

\nCORRECT<\/b>:<\/p>\n

\nYou’re a dipwad.<\/b><\/p>\n

\n(YOU ARE a …)<\/p>\n

\nFor further grammar fun, including the use of apostrophes in possessives and some great pics of apostrophe abuse and misuse, see<\/p>\n

\nThe Apostrophe Protection Society<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honestly people (well, some of you)… it’s really quite easy to figure out when to use the words “it’s“, “its“, “you’re” or “your“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-5","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-grammar","8":"tag-punctuation","9":"anons"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peSL2o-5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdragon.com\/lair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}