Choosing between its and it’s | The Apostrophe | Punctuation | Khan Academy Video Lecture | Complete Course on English Grammar: Upgrade your Speaking & Listening - Personal Skills

hello grammarians and hello Paige hi
David so what are we working on today so
today we're going to talk about the
difference between it's and it's oh well
that sounds real tricky yeah but we'll
be okay
okay so it's with anna pasta we have
these two forms in English and they mean
very different things so let's let's go
through them really quick so it's with
an apostrophe is a contraction right
what is it a contraction of it is or it
has as in it's a lovely day outside or
for it has like it's been it has been
one week since you look to choose sad
it's a sad week as opposed to it can you
walk me through its so it is a
possessive pronoun and it's a little
confusing because possessive usually
uses an apostrophe too but possessive
pronouns don't use apostrophes so you
would say something like I like ribeye
steak because of its rich flavor
it's a grody looking steak no pink and
green is not how you want your steak to
look so we frankly just use it's where
we would use his or her or their or our
you would use it's great it's just that
it's not a person so so if I were asking
you can I borrow your book that's kind
of the same thing as I like ribeye steak
because of its flavor right it's it's
showing that the flavor belongs to the
steak
just like the book belongs to me right
so flavor belongs to it book belongs to
you so this is the core distinction is
if you're talking about anything that
would be about possession you use its i
TS no apostrophe if you're trying to
contract something it is or it has like
it's a lovely day outside or it's been
one week since you look to cheese then
you would use I T up
Hofstra fiesque because it's a
contraction you're trying to cram more
information into this one little phrase
precisely sweet that's how you choose
between IT apostrophe s and I T no
apostrophe s you can learn anything Dave
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