I once had a high school English teacher as adjunct for English 2010. He was floored when I explained that we don't apostrophe theirs or possessive "its" because we don't apostrophe his/hers. He said he was going to use that to teach his high school students from now on. This was in Utah. Meanwhile, I learned that little nugget and many others in elementary school back in Texas during then-Governor Bush's "No Child Left Behind" laws. They sucked overall, but man teachers got good at figuring out little tips and shortcuts to passing the TAKS tests.
There’s a reason they teach geometry and not English. But still....
came here to say this lol
I once had a high school English teacher as adjunct for English 2010. He was floored when I explained that we don't apostrophe theirs or possessive "its" because we don't apostrophe his/hers. He said he was going to use that to teach his high school students from now on. This was in Utah. Meanwhile, I learned that little nugget and many others in elementary school back in Texas during then-Governor Bush's "No Child Left Behind" laws. They sucked overall, but man teachers got good at figuring out little tips and shortcuts to passing the TAKS tests.
That’s actually genius! Wish math teachers would give more tricks like that.