When do we have to use "it's" and "its"? The answer is simple:
It's = it is:
It's easy to speak English. = It is easy to speak English.
"Its" is the possessive form of "it":
It hasn't lost its charm.
London hasn't lost its charm.
So, are there absolutely no exceptions to this rule?
How come the creators of this intensely confusing language
decided to drop the apostrophe for the possessive form?
Actually, that's not the only possessive form without an apostrophe: his, her, my, our also belong in
this series of possessive determiners,
so it would stick out as peculiar if its had
an apostrophe when all the others do not:
his, her, my, our, your, their, its
This leads to an odd question:
?Who owns the food, we,you, they or the dog
It's our food.
It's your food.
It's their food.
Well then, is it possible that you could write:
"It's its food"? Yes, you could,
if you were talking about a strange dog of unknown sex.
(We usually call our own or friends' pets 'he' and 'she'.)
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