Hi, 'Its' is a pronoun where as 'it's' is a contraction of 'it is'. The first line is correct. The defence is just doing its job.

The holiday is commonly printed as Veteran's Day or Veterans' Day in calendars and advertisements. While these spellings are grammatically acceptable, the United States government has declared that the attributive (no apostrophe)

I never use an apostrophe with these abbreviations, unless it would cause confusion without the apostrophe, e.g. when the abbreviation is a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. So the following plural forms look OK to me: CDs, DVDs,

Hi All, I think that the reason people get this wrong (i.e. "cd's") is because they think in terms of abbreviation just as "phone" should really be written " 'phone" to indicate the missing "tele".

Dear friend, for singular names ending in -s, the regular genitive is usual: Davis's , Charles's . Sometimes these nouns are treated as if they were plural: Davis' , Charles' - in this case the ending -s is still pronounced even

By definition a contaction is contracting multipletwo words into one. The apostrophe is placed where the 'missing' letter(s) would have been. Untrue. A contraction could just as easily be employed in a single word, mostly in the middle of

Jame is a very peculiar name, but you can contract it with is as you have done. The pronunciation of Spanish is and Spanish's is the same, so there's no point in using the apostrophe construction. Use the contraction only when the

True, Anonymous! Pluralized acronyms should not use apostrophes. As an experienced English Tutor/Mentor, apostrophes are used in possession of & in contractions (i.e., Jane's cat won't eat fish.) To place an apostrophe after an acronym or

No apostrophe is needed as got is a verb. The title is ungrammatical or informal - whichever word you prefer. In correct English: The Lakes Have Got Talent. CB

Hi there. We are doing a talent show in an area called "The Lakes" and we are calling it "The Lakes Got Talent." Should we use an apostrophe? If so where should it be places? Thank you for the help.