Since I handled possessives last week–when to use Apostrophe-S vs. S-Apostrophe–I just wanted to be sure to do a quick lesson on the difference between these two words:

On the surface, just going with your gut, you might be inclined to believe that IT’S is possessive. After all, there’s the whole “Add an apostrophe S to make any noun possessive” rule.

But it is not a noun. It’s a pronoun, and that is very different.

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