Choosing between its and it’s | The Apostrophe | Punctuation | Khan Academy

David and Paige explain the meaning of two English words that look and sound very similar but act very different: _its_ and _it's_.

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Punctuation on Khan Academy: Punctuation is the collection of squiggles, dots, and lines that we use to separate sentences and their parts. Is a question mark punctuation? Yes, and so is an exclamation point!

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