I need Knopfler!

[knopfling]

Fieneke, you're right. When you are contracting "it is," then it's "it's."
The confusion, I think, comes because many people know sometimes you use an apostrophe to denote possessives, such as "Fieneke's last post." But that doesn't work in the case of "its" because that is already possessive, as in "the cat licked its paw."

[dustyvalentino]

Inappropriate use of apostrophes gets on my tit's. 

[superval99]

ROFL!!!           

[Fieneke2]

Inappropriate use of apostrophes gets on my tit's. 

 

Thank you ladies! 

You know having another language, I and many other people from abroad try to do our best and want to use the right words and the " or ' etc!  ........We might sometimes use wrong words or spelling, but then I know you all will understand, or even ask to explain or correct us. That is what friends are for and that is why I feel safe to post here, at MKnews, the forum of my USA friends and of course at my own forum at Audiocandy! 

I remember the time when I joined internet almost 8 years ago and started to read at a forum of an USA TV program I liked to watch! I had English lessons for a few years at school, but that was about 24 years ago!! After reading I tried to write a bit at their forum and often needed my dictionary for ALL the difficult words and the right spelling! It took much time, but because friends of that site encouraged me and helped me when something wasn

[superval99]

Fieneke - You have absolutely no need to worry about your English at all!  You write and understand English so well that I honestly forget that English is not your first language!  I feel exactly the same about all the other people on this forum for whom English is not their first language too. You all put me to shame because I have been learning German for a few years now and know how difficult it is to speak and understand a foreign language and I have great admiration for you all.  I actually think that a lot of English speakers are worse at spelling and grammar!    

I'm glad to hear the fun is returning, Fieneke.   

[knopfling]

I absolutely admire everyone who can speak, read or write in more than one language.

[Waterline Man]

I absolutely admire everyone who can speak, read or write in more than one language.

Ah thanks knopfling ,

I'm Irish but I speak fluent English

[Rollergirl]

Forums are a great way to learn English, that's so true. Although back in the 80s, when I was learning English, there was no internet. Guess how I learnt English? At school yes but my best teacher was MK. I spent hours with a dictionary trying to understand the words of DS songs... Thanks Mr K!

[knopfling]

Waterline Man -- I admire you!

[Fieneke2]

Thank you for your compiment Val and Knopfling!

Waterline Man, just a question. Do you speak English in Ireland or is it different and a kind of dialect? 

I ask this because in my country we have many dialects too! I live in the beautiful province Drenthe and we speak the Drents dialect. When we talk it sometimes is difficult for other people to understand exactly what we say..........Uuuhhh I think Ingrid can confirm that!  Of course it is hard for us to understand the dialect of the people in the Southern or Western part of our country! And imagine the people of the province Friesland have their own language. When they talk, it is even more difficult then the English language!  .............Of course when we have a conversation with people who don't understand the Drents dialect, we speak normal Dutch!

Fieneke

[Waterline Man]

The dominant language here is English,but we also have "gaeilge" which is our own language but this is only spoken in some of the "gaeltacht" areas of the country which there are about 5 or 6? The Irish language is taught in the schools & forms part of the curriculume & people send their kids off to the gaeltacht areas during the summer for a few weeks to learn it.All the road signs here would have the Irish & English version on them, something similar to the Welsh dialect.   .

You would probably have to go to rural Ireland to hear it spoken though as it wouldnt be common practice to hear it in the cities.