It's and its

[jcrunker]

whats the difference between it's and its, who's and whose?
if its possible provide some ex.
Thankyou!

 

[5jj]

whats the difference between it's and its, who's and whose?
if its possible provide some examples.
Thankyou!

It's = it is or it has.
It's a nice day. It's thawed during the night.

Its = belonging to it.
The cat chased its own tail.

Who's = who is or who has.
Who's coming this evening? Who's been eating my porridge?

Whose = of whom
The girl whose flat we are staying in is on holiday in Turkey.
Whose book is this?

 

[Nightmare85]

***Neither a teacher nor a native speaker.***

fivejedjon, I respect your very helpful answer, but when you start correcting someone's post,
please correct it completely.
Otherwise the member might think everything else is correct.

What's the difference between it's and its, who's and whose?
If it's possible, provide some examples.
Thank you!

Cheers!

 

[5jj]

fivejedjon, I respect your very helpful answer, but when you start correcting someone's post,
please correct it completely.
Otherwise the member might think everything else is correct.

I think you have misused 'respect' there.

 

[Nightmare85]

Well, what word should I have used then? ;-)
Maybe "I appreciate your post."?

Cheers!

 

[bhaisahab]

Well, what word should I have used then? ;-)
Maybe "I appreciate your post."?

Cheers!

If you respect his answer, you don't go on to instruct him on what he should do. Fivejedjon is a native English speaker and a teacher, you are neither.

 

[Nightmare85]

I know this, but it doesn't make my statement or suggestion unnecessary.
The only thing I suggested was to correct posts completely, not only one word.
And this has nothing to do with native speaker and teacher.
Please read jcrunker's post and tell me it's grammatically correct except the "ex".
(Because I don't think it is.)

If I create a post which has many mistakes and you correct 1 of them, I will think the rest is okay.
Nobody is forced to correct anything here (it's completely voluntary), but either no correction or a full correction.

This is my opinion, and it's completely independent of my native language!

I don't really think you took my 1st post (the 3rd reply here on this thread) as some kind of insult.

Cheers!

 

[bhaisahab]

I know this, but it doesn't make my statement or suggestion unnecessary.
The only thing I suggested was to correct posts completely, not only one word.
And this has nothing to do with native speaker and teacher.
Please read jcrunker's post and tell me it's grammatically correct except the "ex".
(Because I don't think it is.)

If I create a post which has many mistakes and you correct 1 of them, I will think the rest is okay.
Nobody is forced to correct anything here (it's completely voluntary), but either no correction or a full correction.

This is my opinion, and it's completely independent of my native language!

I don't really think you took my 1st post (the 3rd reply here on this thread) as some kind of insult.

Cheers!

I don't think you meant to be insulting, but your post was quite abrupt and inappropriate given yours and fivejedjon's relative experience in English language teaching.

 

[5jj]

And this has nothing to do with native speaker and teacher.

It has, actually.

You may not have intended it, but " ...when you start correcting someone's post, please correct it completely" comes across as authoritarian and critical, as does "Nobody is forced to correct anything here (it's completely voluntary), but either no correction or a full correction." It is not the way colleagues normally address each other in BrE.

I would have considered it inappropriate even if one of the administrators or moderators had addressed those words to me - unless there were a clearly stated forum policy requiring complete correction.

When British teachers believe that a colleague is doing something incorrectly, they tend to say something like, "I notice that you did not correct all the mistakes; was that deliberate?" Others may find this strange or even hypocritical, but that is the way it's generally done. It also spares one the embarrassment of discovering that one has criticised something which may have been done for a good reason.

 

[jcrunker]

I know this, but it doesn't make my statement or suggestion unnecessary.
The only thing I suggested was to correct posts completely, not only one word.
And this has nothing to do with native speaker and teacher.
Please read jcrunker's post and tell me it's grammatically correct except the "ex".
(Because I don't think it is.)

If I create a post which has many mistakes and you correct 1 of them, I will think the rest is okay.
Nobody is forced to correct anything here (it's completely voluntary), but either no correction or a full correction.

This is my opinion, and it's completely independent of my native language!

I don't really think you took my 1st post (the 3rd reply here on this thread) as some kind of insult.

Cheers!

correct me if im wrong in my grammer in my post
Thankyou:-o

 

[5jj]

[STRIKE]c[/STRIKE]Correct me if [STRIKE]i[/STRIKE]I'm wrong in my gramm[STRIKE]e[/STRIKE]ar in my post.
Thank you. :-o

Nightmare did it for your original post; I have done it for this. It's more a matter of punctution and capitalisation than grammar.