Comments on: It’s Nose-Is-Running! http://www.apostropheabuse.com/2007/12/its-nose-is-running.html Links and visuals illustrating an orthographic pet peeve. Fri, 17 May 2013 06:14:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: caphector http://www.apostropheabuse.com/2007/12/its-nose-is-running.html#comment-2738 caphector Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:07:00 +0000 http://www.apostropheabuse.com/2007/12/its-nose-is-running.html#comment-2738 Thanks, I mis-read the strip. Embarrassed now…

]]> By: Blue http://www.apostropheabuse.com/2007/12/its-nose-is-running.html#comment-2732 Blue Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:20:00 +0000 http://www.apostropheabuse.com/2007/12/its-nose-is-running.html#comment-2732 Go Hannah!! LOL

]]> By: hannah http://www.apostropheabuse.com/2007/12/its-nose-is-running.html#comment-2730 hannah Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:24:00 +0000 http://www.apostropheabuse.com/2007/12/its-nose-is-running.html#comment-2730 dear caphector,
in case no one ever taught you, you only put an apostrophe in “it’s” when you are combining “it” and “is”. you leave out the apostrophe when refering to something belonging to it.

congratulations on passing English grammar

]]> By: caphector http://www.apostropheabuse.com/2007/12/its-nose-is-running.html#comment-2729 caphector Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:05:00 +0000 http://www.apostropheabuse.com/2007/12/its-nose-is-running.html#comment-2729 I’d swear this one is correct…”‘Flu” is short for “Influenza” and is common usage. “It’s” in this case is a pronoun referring back to “‘Flu”. If you substitute the referent for the pronoun, you get “[The 'flu]‘s nose is running”, which AFAIK is correct.

Of course, that’s just a complex way of explaining the its/it’s debate.

]]> By: Rebekah http://www.apostropheabuse.com/2007/12/its-nose-is-running.html#comment-2723 Rebekah Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:26:00 +0000 http://www.apostropheabuse.com/2007/12/its-nose-is-running.html#comment-2723 and what’s with the ‘flu?

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