Talk:Religions
I was giving myself some time for reflection but you are right it make more sense --Karbo
Kallisti was removed, but her cult was not? Is this an oversight or was this intentional? --Oldman40k2003 02:58, 21 October 2012 (PDT)
I can assure you that I almost certainly have been using them wrong here and there, and I had to go lookup the proper usages of both to be sure.
As you know, adding "'s" to the end of a word makes it possessive. Ex: "Oldman's page." which means that the page is mine.
Adding just the "s" to the end of a word makes it plural. Ex: "The wiki pages." which means there are many pages in the wiki.
However, this rule is reversed when talking about "it's" and "its".
"it's" is a contraction for "it is", and the rule of thumb is that you can use "it's" any place where you could instead use "it is". Ex: "It's time to edit the wiki."
"its" is the possessive form for "it", which is pronoun similar to "he" or "she", but genderless. Ex: "The swamp creature was huge, its head towered above the trees."
As far as I know, in all other cases aside from "it's" and "its", using "'s" makes something possessive, so you can see why I would get confused from time to time... logically "it's" should be the possessive form! (Except that it is a pronoun, and funny things happen to pronouns when they become possessive: "he"->"his", "she"->"her" or "hers"(depending on context), "you"->"yours", "my"->"mine", "them"->"theirs", and "it"->"its". ^^; (And this is ignoring rarely used forms like "thou"->"thine") --Oldman40k2003 05:05, 3 June 2008 (PDT)
Mhh I see ^^
So when I write say : "Its fangs looked menacing"
it's more correct to write instad " It's fangs looked menacing" ?
Not, it is correct to say "Its fangs looked menacing." The other way ("It's fangs looked menacing") becomes "It is fangs looked menacing", which doesn't make sense. I know using "its" there looks wrong (it looks wrong even to me), but because of messed up English grammar that is the correct way. ^^;
