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Originally posted by mmm3587
*Hi, dtb! Your so sexy! P.S. How come we've never had the that/which descriptive/restrictive conversation here? There is rampant abuse!
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Hi mmmm! My so sexy what?
You are indeed correct that abuse is rampant, but I can only fight on so many fronts at a time. Once people understand that the apostrophe in contractions is MEANT TO TAKE THE PLACE OF THE MISSING LETTERS (sorry for the outburst -- I just had to get that off my chest), we can move on to the more complex problems such as the that/which dilemma.
For example: "whose" means (roughly) "whom does it belong to" and "who's" means "who is". (See how the apostrophe takes the place of the missing "i" from "is"?) Similar thing going on with your/you're.
