Last evening's Fox News broadcast had a story about Sarah Palin speaking in Nashville. The on screen headline read as follows:Sarah Palin Brought Tea Party Convention to It's Feet.
This is my 23rd blog entry on grammar glitches featuring apostrophes. If you use ITS to refer to something belonging to an IT (in this case, the feet at the Tea Party convention), you do NOT need an apostrophe.
As I have reminded many times before, the ONLY time the word IT'S should have an apostrophe is when it is used as a shortcut (contraction) for IT IS or IT HAS
This headline should have read as follows:
Sarah Palin Brought Tea Party Convention Delegates to Their Feet.
BONUS POINT: If you want to be technically correct, a convention does not have feet. Its (no apostrophe!) delegates do.
I hope Fox News will run a Grammar Glitch course for its (no apostrophe!!) writers.
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