Showing posts with label Possessives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Possessives. Show all posts

Saturday, June 20, 2009

The it's/its confusion has me in a snit!

The results are in, and this week's most-often corrected word is it's incorrectly used in place of its.

Coming in second was there/their, with the ever-popular assure/ensure just a hair behind in third.

The multiple offenses were in a proposal for Office of Management and Budget IT support. I'm starting to think that the geek writers whose work I review hacked their grade records for English and skipped those classes.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

If it's Tuesday, I must be working for . . .

The company I work for has Systems in its name.

So, the possessive would be Systems' as you well know.

Staff and contract writers routinely submit material with, for example, "Bogus System's management approach . . ."

As the name implies, the company comprises multiple systems. And yet some of our writers would make it less so.