Non-native speakers tend to make mistakes with “its” vs “it’s” because they learn that in English the rule for when to after a “subject” put an apostrophe followed by an “s” is when you’re talking about something that subject has, but this case is an exception to that rule since " it " followed " 's " stands for " it is " whilst talking about something that " it " has is written " its ".
I mean, you can memorize there’s an exception to the rule for this case, but if you’re not paying enough attention when writting it’s easy to make a mistake by unthinkingly following the rule as usual even though in this case it doesn’t apply, and even if you re-read the text to check if it’s alright, it’s easy to miss it because you kinda have the right meaning in your mind so you read what you meant to write rather than what you wrote plus they’re both valid forms so neither stands out as a spelling mistake even when misused.
It’s/its is also common mistake with non-native speakers.
The really obvious one is using of instead of instead of have. Would of. Should of. Could of. From would’ve, should’ve, could’ve. Non-native speakers will rarely if ever make that mistake.
There’s a lot of stuff where native speakers make more mistakes than people who learn the language later in life, though. Not just with English.
It’s vs. its is a classic, which is written very differently in many other languages. I suspect they mix them up less when they switch to English.
Non-native speakers tend to make mistakes with “its” vs “it’s” because they learn that in English the rule for when to after a “subject” put an apostrophe followed by an “s” is when you’re talking about something that subject has, but this case is an exception to that rule since " it " followed " 's " stands for " it is " whilst talking about something that " it " has is written " its ".
I mean, you can memorize there’s an exception to the rule for this case, but if you’re not paying enough attention when writting it’s easy to make a mistake by unthinkingly following the rule as usual even though in this case it doesn’t apply, and even if you re-read the text to check if it’s alright, it’s easy to miss it because you kinda have the right meaning in your mind so you read what you meant to write rather than what you wrote plus they’re both valid forms so neither stands out as a spelling mistake even when misused.
It’s/its is also common mistake with non-native speakers.
The really obvious one is using of instead of instead of have. Would of. Should of. Could of. From would’ve, should’ve, could’ve. Non-native speakers will rarely if ever make that mistake.
Oh, yes! That’s a much better example, thanks.