Your pet peeves

[kimboe]

(sp? its when a Frenchman & native american indian have a baby, that baby is Matee

King2005 it's spelled Meti

[binka_nugget]

My biggest pet peeve is when people mix up your, you're and there, their and they're.

[Roxyluvsme13]

When people say my name wrong/spell it wrong. It's Bri-Anna just spelled Briana. I get called Brieyonna, and grr I hate it. I can understand the spelling, but if its right in front of people and they STILL spell it wrong...

[Jessika]

My biggest pet peeve is when people mix up your, you're and there, their and they're.

I was justttt going to post about that

I would say its and it's too but even I get those mixed up (besides, aren't they backwards from "proper" grammar? Like, "It's a nice day out" and "look at its tail!")

[finn's mom]

I was justttt going to post about that

I would say its and it's too but even I get those mixed up (besides, aren't they backwards from "proper" grammar? Like, "It's a nice day out" and "look at its tail!")

Aren't you supposed to put an apostrophe there, too? "look at it's tail!" hahahaha, now i'm confused. I thought if it was possessive, you put an apostrophe...like Jason's hat or it's tail or the car's engine...or maybe the its/it's thing is the one that that rule doesn't apply to. I think my niece (she is a language arts teacher) told me about that once...I'll have to ask her again.

[K9soul]

Nope, "its" doesn't use an apostrophe because then it would be the same word as the contraction. Also it's a pronoun when used that way and you don't say "her's" you say hers. Hard to explain . But all those little grammatical things bother me, mainly when I see them in web pages, newspapers, published things, etc. I mess up too sometimes if I'm out of it and type something hastily.

[finn's mom]

Nope, "its" doesn't use an apostrophe because then it would be the same word as the contraction. Also it's a pronoun when used that way and you don't say "her's" you say hers. Hard to explain . But all those little grammatical things bother me, mainly when I see them in web pages, newspapers, published things, etc. I mess up too sometimes if I'm out of it and type something hastily.

Ok, that's what I was thinking...but, it gets weird. I remember that exception to the rule now, as far as possessive words using the apostrophe. I'll have to try to remember that it doesn't apply to pronouns. Thanks, man, I knew someone would be able to explain it, I shoulda know it would be you!

[Suki Wingy]

But all those little grammatical things bother me, mainly when I see them in web pages, newspapers, published things, etc. I mess up too sometimes if I'm out of it and type something hastily.

Exactly. I saw a sign at Dairy Queen the other day that said, "Cake's to make your day special!" or something like that but it was written on the professional poster "cake's"

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Nope, "its" doesn't use an apostrophe because then it would be the same word as the contraction.

Because no other word in the English language has two meanings.

[K9soul]

Because no other word in the English language has two meanings.

I didn't mean it that way. It's not the same word with two different meanings, it's two completely different words. An apostrophe denotes either possessive or contraction but never both. It's a symbol that means that it is a combined word with syllables missing or even when denoting slang "I'm drivin' down the road." (apostrophe to denote the missing g). Not the same "There is a bear over there." and "I guess I can bear the weight."

Maybe if my brain wasn't in such a fog I could explain it better but it has to do with a symbol and not the actual word meaning two different things.

It's like if you are saying "A's, B's and C's" you have to use an apostrophe, otherwise the word will be As. But if you say ABCs there will be no apostrophe there. It's not a different meaning, it makes it a completely different word.

[Jessika]

Aren't you supposed to put an apostrophe there, too? "look at it's tail!" hahahaha, now i'm confused. I thought if it was possessive, you put an apostrophe...like Jason's hat or it's tail or the car's engine...or maybe the its/it's thing is the one that that rule doesn't apply to. I think my niece (she is a language arts teacher) told me about that once...I'll have to ask her again.

See, that's what I'm talking about. It's backwards lol

But yeah k9soul explained it, it's just hard to remember which way it goes sometimes!

I probably made a mistake even using it in this post LOL