Would you like to know the number one grammatical error? Hint: The word involved is small and it’s contained in this sentence.
That’s right: its vs. it’s Yet the two rules are actually quite easy to remember.
Rule 1:When you mean it is or it has, use an apostrophe. Examples: It’s a nice day. It’s your right to refuse the invitation. It’s been great getting to know you. Rule 2: When you are using its as a possessive, don’t use the apostrophe. Examples: The cat hurt its paw. The furniture store celebrated its tenth anniversary. Note: From what we understand, the possessive was also written it’s until a couple of hundred years ago. While we don’t know for certain, it is possible that the apostrophe was dropped in order to parallel possessive personal pronouns like hers, theirs, yours, ours, etc.”
Punctuation Resources
punc·tu·a·tion (punk-tchew-way-shun): the marks, such as period, comma, and parentheses, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning
What Are the Fourteen Punctuation Marks in English Grammar? The 14 punctuation marks commonly used in English grammar are the:
period .
question mark ?
exclamation point !
comma ,
semicolon ;
colon ;
dash -- (a dash can be created on the PC by using holding down the ALT key and typing 0151 on the numeric keypad)
hyphen - (1/2 the size of a dash— some people use two hyphens instead but it can look unprofessional)