'The dog walked into the room and drank from its bowl'. Does 'its' take an apostrophe, and if not why not

Answer 1

It does because its a possession and not a plural

Answer 2

No it doesn't need an apostrophe. Usually an apostrophe is used to signify that a letter is missing. For example: it's raining today. The apostrophe has replaced the "i". Without the apostrophe the sentence would have to read "It is raining today." In the sentence about the dogs bowl, the "its" implies ownership of the bowl,not that there is a letter missing. There may be some exceptions to this but as a general rule of thumb this works pretty well.

Answer 3

It does NOT need an apostrophe!

Using apostrophes in such manners is a common mistake that I've been seeing recently.

You don't need one because the way you're using it is possessive.

It's = it is.
Its = possessive

You wouldn't say "The dog drank from it is bowl," would you? No. It doesn't make sense.

But you would say "Fido drank from his bowl," right?
Yep. Because it's Fido's bowl.

In the same way, using "its" makes the bowl be the dog's.

Your sentence should read just the way you have it.

"The dog walked into the room and drank from its bowl."

*Although, on a side note, the period should go INSIDE of your quotes. Periods ALWAYS go inside quotes, just like commas always do. Exclamation marks should go on the inside of quotes if they pertain to the quoted part. They go on the outside if they're for the WHOLE sentence. Same thing for question marks.

Sorry if this is the same info from another answer. I didn't take the time to read through them.

:)

Hope this helps. The English language is somewhat crazy... sometimes it just makes my head spin.

Answer 4

Its is used as a possessive pronoun in this case and therefore doesn't have an apostrophe (similarly his).

It's is short for it is.

eg: The dog's bowl (The dogs' bowl - ie the bowl of more than one dog)
His bowl (their bowl)
Its bowl (their bowl)
It's cold outside

Answer 5

No. In your sentence, "its" is a possessive adjective, and has no apostrophe. It is similar to the word "his". If the word means "it is", then it does have an apostrophe to indicate the omitted "i".

It's [ = It is ] correct in your sentence to use no apostrophe, but at the start of this sentence, the first word needs an apostrophe.

Answer 6

there is no apostophe here as it's is short for it is and this does not make sense ie
the dog walked into the room and drank from it is bowl!
the apostrophe is in place of the i in it is = it's

Answer 7

The convention is to use "it's" for the contraction of "it is" and to use the spelling without the apostrophe for the possessive.

I once asked how to distinguish the plural of "it" from the possessive, such as when you want to say "Look at all those its!" but I got stood in a corner for that.

Answer 8

No it doesn't, for the same reason that his and her has no apostrophe. It is confusing, because if it was the dog's bowl, then there would be one. But hey, English is confusing.

Answer 9

you never use an apostrophe with possessive pronouns (its, hers, his, theirs, yours, ours, whose) as these words are already possessive.
So, The dog walked into the room and drank from its bowl is correct.
An easier way to remember is that it's is short for "it has" or "it is" so using it's in your sentence would not make sense.

Answer 10

No apostrophe should be used here because "it's" is a contraction of it is. The possessive does not use an apostrophe in this case.

Answer 11

Use the apostrophe if you are making a contraction of it is. In regular usage the apostrophe is not required in this possesive.