22 Dec
2017
22 Dec
'17
2:06 p.m.
On 2017-12-22 08:02:21 (-0500), Fearghas Mckay wrote:
On 22 Dec 2017, at 05:18, Lia Hestina <lhestina@ripe.net> wrote:
We’ve been informed that “it’s” can be a contraction of “it is” and/or “it has” - in this case we use it as a contraction of “it has”.
Sorry that is wrong - it’s is only a contraction for ‘it is’. It is never for ‘it has’.
The Cambridge Dictionary disagrees with you: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/its?q=it%27s it's: "short form of it has:" "It's been a wonderful day - thank you." Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information