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Posted: March 16th, 2005, 12:09 pm
by judih
i'd leave 'its' out of it

it morphs into watery babies that create eddies

'morphs' is a strange word - you either like it or not, but it works
hmmm
transforms is also a possibility

the it's its thing is tricky

though, it's its is very anemone-ish

Posted: March 16th, 2005, 12:11 pm
by Lightning Rod
Panta,

I hesitate to give you grammatical advice, since you write English better than I do, and it's my native tongue (that is, if you classify Texanese as English.)

I would get rid of the awkward 'it's its' thing by rephrasing the statement.

"The stream of my mind creates it's own watery eddies."

or something like that

Posted: March 16th, 2005, 12:19 pm
by panta rhei
okay - seems the it's-thing is just solvable through re-composing the sentence, and that the general 'it' (as in it's hot - it's obvious - it's me who is weird) cannot be used together with the plural form in english (not: it's us who is/are weird).

thanks, judih and clay!

Posted: March 16th, 2005, 2:00 pm
by Marksman45
The pural form of "it" in such cases is actually "it." Isn't that wonderful?
The English language was never really thought through.

Posted: March 16th, 2005, 2:14 pm
by Marksman45
I should clarify though; statements such as "It is (insert rest of statement here)" are considered bad practice and are discouraged by grammar teachers.

I, however, am not a grammar teacher. I bet I could become one rather easily though.