On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:23:19 -0500 (EST), Andrew Huang wrote:

	Yes, I'm going to be incredibly anal. But these things have been
annoying the Hell out of me ever since I finally got them right myself.
Anyways, here are some commonly broken grammar rules that I seem to be
finding here a lot.

 "Your" and "You're"
-Your: possessive form of "you". Ex.: "I'll always be _your_ friend."
-You're: contraction of "you are". Ex.: "_You're_ my friend."

 "Their", "They're", and "There"
-Their: possessive form of "they". Ex.: "That's _their_ property."
-They're: contraction of "they are". Ex.: "_They're_ not going to that."
-There: indication of some place. Ex.: "Don't go _there_."

 "Its" and "It's"
-Its: possessive form of "it". Ex.: "He's following the monster back to
_its_ cave."
-It's: contraction of "it is". Ex.: "_It's_ a nice day today, don't you
think?"

 Another thing: try not to switch back and forth between present and past
tenses when writing. It's very grating. Sorry to do this to you....

Your absoultely right, and its good of you to help people get there
grammar straightened out.

Sorry, I couldn't resist! :-) It's a joke! Please put down that
mallet!!

Gary (who tries not to have switched verb tenses...)

Gary Kleppe
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