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| Jul 29, 2013 at 5:41 | comment | added | AlbeyAmakiir | This answer and the one by jbelacqua are the only answers to say what pattern it is following, and pointing out that it's not just a weird outlier word that magically doesn't follow the "Bob's object" pattern. | |
| Aug 14, 2010 at 16:12 | comment | added | ShreevatsaR | Right. All possessive pronouns have their one words without apostrophes: “his”, “her”, “its”, “their”, “my”, “our”, “your”, “whose” (but “one's”). The corresponding words with apostrophes all mean something else: “he's”, “she's”, “it's”, “they're”, “I'm”, “We're”, "You're”, “Who's”. Many people seem to make mistakes even when writing “they're”, “you're” or “whose”! | |
| Aug 13, 2010 at 8:48 | history | answered | Matt Hamilton | CC BY-SA 2.5 |