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Alphabetical order rules for its, it's

Denise L

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I am wondering if anyone has the rules for where apostrophes fall when you are alphabetizing words.

In particular,

its
it's

I thought it was it's first, since it is like "it is" and I thought that would come before its. But the teacher says its is first.

Just curious what the official rule is and what is says about how you treat an apostrophe.
 
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DebBrown

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I don't know if Microsoft is the authority but when I sorted these words with Excel, this is the order in which they appeared:

its
it's
who's
whose

Does that help?

Deb
 

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I don't know if Microsoft is the authority but when I sorted these words with Excel, this is the order in which they appeared:

its
it's
who's
whose

Does that help?

Deb

Thanks, Deb. I figured out what the correct order is, but I was curious as to how that rule was determined, or what the actual rule says.
 

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Okay, so what are you asking?
 
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