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Poll: ____ not going to work.

____ not going to work.

Its
It's
Either could be used.

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  • Votes: 282
  • Comments: 1
  • Added: March 2013

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flying dutchman

it's is a contraction: it is, so this one is OK.
But its is possessif: its book, or its alone = the one of it (animal, ...) therefore another verb should be mandatory here. So this one (its) can't function in this context.

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