{"id":72351,"date":"2019-09-22T10:13:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72351"},"modified":"2019-09-22T10:13:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T10:13:41","slug":"its-vs-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/its-vs-its\/","title":{"rendered":"Its vs. It&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">These two words are often confused by foreign learners of English.<\/p>\n<p><b>Its <\/b>is a possessive word like<b> my<\/b> or <b>your<\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every country has <b>its <\/b>traditions.<\/li>\n<li><b>Its <\/b>colour was deep red.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>It\u2019s<\/b> is the contracted form of <b>it is<\/b> or <b>it has.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>It\u2019s<\/b> raining again. (= It is raining again.)<\/li>\n<li><b>It\u2019s <\/b>time we went home. (= It is time we went home.)<\/li>\n<li>Have you seen my cell phone? <b>It\u2019s<\/b> disappeared. (= It has disappeared.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two words are often confused by foreign learners of English. Its is a possessive word like my or your. Every country has its traditions. Its colour was deep red. It\u2019s is the contracted&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1566,1567],"class_list":["post-72351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-its","tag-its-vs-its"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72352,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72351\/revisions\/72352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}