Think of its (the possessive) the same way you think of mine, yours, hers, his, ours, and theirs. Pronouns are NOT nouns and possessive pronouns do NOT have apostrophes. Its is not the only one, it is not an exception, and therefore it is not an unintuitive gotcha.
The unintuitive gotcha is, of course, the pronoun that does take an apostrophe in its possessive: one's.
Or maybe they simply don't believe it's going to work. Thirty years ago I (yes I am that old) I learned in highschool that fission was still thirty years away. Now they say it's fifty.
And that's just about right, although it's now more like 60 years since the Manhattan Project. But close enough.
According to Jeep, Jeep is an adjective. You shouldn't get into your Jeep; you should get into your Jeep vehicle.
As a result, the guy in their radio ads who talks about going down to the dealership to check out "their new Jeep vehicles" doesn't sound like a rugged, practical outdoorsman, like they want him to. He sounds like an idiotic corporate tool.
The GPLFlash project appears on Slashdot because it is back in active development. The GPLFlash project is back in active development because it appears on Slashdot.
That's what happens when you tamper with the Mysterious Future.
Only if you mean one's complement. Ones own personal demons shouldn't cause one to mess this up.
Not according to Fowler's Modern English Usage (3rd ed.):
[T]he impersonal one always can, and now usually does, provide its own possessive etc.--one's, oneself, and one. Thus One does not like to have one's word doubted; If one fell, one would hurt oneself badly.
(Emphasis as published.) There is no reference to the form ones.
(iv) The Carnegie Foundation, established by the Scotsman Andrew Carnegie, funds many philanthropic endeavours, including public libraries. It provided the money for the famous 200-inch telescope on Mount Palomar, which saw first light in 1950.
No, the 200-inch was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. This is why the telescope was owned and operated by Caltech, rather than the more obvious choice of the Carnegie Observatories (who had built the 100-inch telescope on Mt. Wilson). The Carnegie Observatories were the astronomical powerhouse in Pasadena when the Palomar grant was made, but of course Rockefeller wasn't about to give his money to Carnegie's people!
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Freedom is slavery.
We have always been at war with Iraq.
There is no occupation.
Fusion, on the other hand, is 8.5 minutes away.
As a result, the guy in their radio ads who talks about going down to the dealership to check out "their new Jeep vehicles" doesn't sound like a rugged, practical outdoorsman, like they want him to. He sounds like an idiotic corporate tool.
- 1. Lift tab to rim.
- 2. Pull back slowly.
- Do not use if tab is lifted.
D'oh!Yeah, out here in California, it's all skyscrapers. We certainly don't have anywhere he could have landed safely.