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How to spell it's

What it means: Contraction of 'it is'.

In a sentence: It's a sunny day outside. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as its or its'.

Sounds like, but is not: its. Same sound, different spelling and meaning.

Same family: its, it is, it has, itself. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "it's" is a contraction formed by combining "it" with "is" or "has." English contractions like "it's" became common in writing around the 17th century to reflect the way people naturally shortened words in speech.

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