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For my Collection Audit project, I'm listening to The Beatles. I noticed a grammatical intricacy in the lyrics of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" although it doesn't affect the meaning at all. When it's heard, there's no difference, but when written out, one line could be either "I look at the world, and I notice it's turning" or "I look at the world, and I notice its turning." Either way, the singer/speaker notices the turning of the world, but grammatically, it could be an indirect statement (I notice [that] it's turning) or a possessive adjective (its) modifying a gerund (turning).
