I’m glad that Jez, ChrisT and Jim were on the ball; I clearly wasn’t think
straight when I answered Philippe’s email :-)
Chris
> On 3 Feb 2019, at 16:26, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It is what it is.
>
> Or: It's what it is.
>
> But not: It's what it's.
>
>>
>> I can’t envisage any use of “it is” (or “it’s”) at the end of a
>> sentence, Philippe, except perhaps colloquially or in older forms
>> of the language. But the rule is that the possessive pronoun has
>> no apostrophe, whereas the contraction of the phrase “it is” does.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Help a poor non-native. I had learned that no contractraction
>>> such as " it’s « for "it is" should be used (and is actually ever
>>> heard) at the end of a sentence.
>>>
>>> Are trends changing?
>
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