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Questions About Its

Multiple non-gendered entities in possession of a common thing would be: its'
The possessive plural is formed exactly as you would handle, say, multiple young men in possession of a single ball: the boys' ball.

I regret that I must defer the query on Strunk and White's usage, as my copy of that venerable volume has gone AWOL. As soon as it is returned to its barracks, I shall endeavour to address the aforementioned inquiry.

posted by editormum on March 23, 2003 at 8:15 PM | link to this | reply

I-T-S

What if there are more than one of "it" ("its"), and they have a common property..... ("its's"?).

And let's go into Strunk's useage or non-usage of  " 's "possesive!

majroj 

posted by majroj on March 23, 2003 at 7:11 PM | link to this | reply

You just don't get it:

These literary phillistines

spit on these euro-rules!

                      Parsifal.

posted by parsifal on March 22, 2003 at 6:19 PM | link to this | reply