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Rising Temperatures Are Threatening Italy’s Bank Reserves—Because They’re Made of Parmesan Cheese
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Tbh the possesive form of "it" is a bitch. For all other words you do 's to indicate possession, but for this exact word you leave out the apostrophe. Whether vs weather, their, there, vs they're, or your vs you're, they all have nothing on this contra intuitive POS of a rule.
Also the correct response to your comment would be: always has been
Only if the words are nouns, not for pronouns. "Its" is a possessive pronoun, like his, hers, ours, yours, theirs. None of those words use apostrophes.
Motherforking shirtballs! You made it make sense. Of cause "it" is a pronoun, and thus follows pronoun rules. Thank you.
No problem! Fwiw, I think you're definitely right that it's unintuitive, as is the English language's love of homonyms in general. I can't imagine how frustrating it must be for non-native speakers.
Because for native speakers we confuse the homonyms. Non-natives didn't grow up hearing all these words pronounced exactly the same.
Specifically because it conflicts with the contraction "it's", at least that's how I remember.