I noticed this classic grammar clanger on a promo for ER on television the other week:

I can remember my first weekly grammar test for my journalism course at university. I made this mistake too and my lecturer Sally White,  wrote “Sally sitting down because Sally feels ill” and she drew a little picture of her sitting in a chair with head stooped.

I have never forgotten the proper use of its and it’s again.

An easy way I would tell the kids I taught was to think whether they would say, “the dog wags it is (it’s) tail” or “the dog wags its tail”.

The sight of a word missing a possessive apostrophe or the misuse of loose and lose, it’s and its and their/there/they’re makes me wonder what is taught in schools.

Here is a tee I picked up for my daughter today at one of those cheapo stores:

Maybe if they'd remembered the apostrophe the tee would have been more expensive?

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