Here is a drawing of my favourite tree. It’s a big, healthy, tree. Its leaves are green.
Can you tell me which numbers in the picture correspond with these words?
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It’s or its?
Let’s look again at these sentences:
It’s a healthy, big tree. Its leaves are green.
What do you notice? What type of word is after it’s and its?
The tree is a healthy, big tree.
It is a healthy, big tree. NOTICE! “It” is a pronoun. It replaces “the tree”.
It’s a healthy, big tree.
It’s is a contraction of ‘it is’.
The leaves of the tree are green.
The tree’s leaves are green.
Its leaves are green.
Its is a possessive form. Possessive adjectives answer the question ‘of what?’ or ‘of who?’
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