{"id":5238,"date":"2019-12-08T19:53:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T19:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2023-04-08T19:14:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T19:14:29","slug":"thats-vs-that-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/thats-vs-that-s\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference between \u201cThats\u201d and \u201cThat&#8217;s\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the difference between &ldquo;thats&rdquo; and &ldquo;that&rsquo;s&rdquo;?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>The difference between <em>thats<\/em> and <em>that&rsquo;s<\/em> is simply that <em>thats<\/em> is a wrong spelling of <em>that&rsquo;s<\/em>, which is the contracted form of <em>that is<\/em>. In the English language, there is no word <em>thats<\/em>. It&rsquo;s as simple as that.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>That&rsquo;s it?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Hold your horses. That&rsquo;s has one more meaning, it can actually also be a <strong>contraction for that has<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But why do people continue to write thats instead of that&rsquo;s?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It seems there are two reasons for that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some people might not know that the correct spelling is that&rsquo;s and they simply write thats because they don&rsquo;t know it any better<\/li>\n<li>Others write thats instead of that&rsquo;s just because they don&rsquo;t care too much about the correct spelling. That(&lsquo;)s OK, right?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>That&rsquo;s the whole story?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Almost. Let me add some useless info at this point.<\/p>\n<p>The car manufacturer Honda actually has a car that goes by the name of <strong>Honda That&rsquo;s<\/strong>. That&rsquo;s some Nr. 1 bull****, right? Well, it is not up to me to judge&hellip;The Honda That&rsquo;s was only meant for the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/study-japanese\/\" title=\"Japanese\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Japanese<\/a> market, that&rsquo;s probably why they could get away with it.<br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thats WRONG. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable-in-feed":false,"article-schema-type":"","disable-critical-css":false,"_convertkit_action_broadcast_export":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24269,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions\/24269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}