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stop abusing the apostrophe!

really, it's not that hard to figure out. use an apostrophe to make a contraction or possessive. anything else is wrong, including making a plural, as in: look at those apple's, or, i have read those book's. this is totally incorrect, and, if there was any justice, would result in instant death via firing squad.

the one exception to the rules outlined above is the case of its/it's. the rule here is that you only use "it's" when you can replace it with "it is" and still have the sentence make sense. for example, "look out, it's stinky jim!" is grammatically correct because the "it's" can be replaced with "it is," and the sentence will still make sense. on the other hand, "man, halo 3 sucks. it's graphics aren't even equal to gears of war!" is incorrect.

(note: i am already aware of the irony inherent in writing a hoity-toity grammatical post using all lower-case.)