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Default Re: Apostropy after a word

A small addition to this:

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Originally Posted by mykwyner View Post
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It's with an apostrophe is a contraction of "it is".


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It's with an apostrophe can also be a contraction of "it has", but only when has is an auxiliary ('helping word') - as in 'It's been raining'. (That is, 'It has a brown fence' can not be abbreviated in this way.)

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