You'll Want To Happily Inform The Office Grammar Police They're Wrong in These 5 Cases

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You'll Want To Happily Inform The Office Grammar Police They're Wrong in These 5 Cases.

You’ll Want To Happily Inform The Office Grammar Police They’re Wrong In These 5 Cases

Editors serve a noble purpose in our organizations. But sometimes they’ll push you into changing something that doesn’t need changing. We’ll look at a few cases in which the office grammar police are enforcing style rules that are obsolete or never held much authority in the first place.

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Richard

 

[chalee94]

But if you say "comprised of" when you mean "composed of", I'm still comin fer ya...

 

[DaveNV]

My 7th Grade English teacher, (the strict authoritarian, who'd ruler slap your palm if you misbehaved in class), would roll over in her grave for the way language is used these days. She said it was very poor to ever start a sentence with a conjunction, for exactly the reason the article states - it's too conversational. In business communication, (and ergo, "proper" English), every sentence should be structured properly, without leaving the reader to wonder what sort of buffoon you truly are. Modern communication has relaxed many of those rules, and it seems these days it's more about getting the right point across, than following an archaic sentence structure that was developed centuries ago. Split infinitives, prepositions, and conjunctions be damned.

So I'm sorry to alert your memory, Miss Brown, but I write, speak, and communicate both orally and written using conversational rules. And I'm not even sorry.

Dave

 

[LannyPC]

You'll Want To Happily Inform The Office Grammar Police They're Wrong in These 5 Cases.

I wouldn't consider myself "Grammar police", but I just cringe when I hear people violating some of these rules. Number five is my pet peeve, especially when the author says something along the lines of "people should gradually consider violating this rule." I personally will go to my grave following that rule.

 

[klpca]

My 82 year old dad is captain of the grammar police and he spends a great deal of time on Facebook correcting everyone or complaining about the poor grammar/spelling that he sees. It's a hoot because he's horrible at correcting his many typos.

You have to make an effort in business correspondence, but on the internet and when texting my grammar bar is pretty low.

 

[Eric B]

The key thing in the title is “You’ll Want To...” rather than “You Would Be Right To....”

If the Grammar Police don’t get you, someone will....

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

What is most critical in precision in message. A message that breaks rules but is unambiguous is far better than one that is grammatically precise but ambiguous.

 

[davidvel]

I always liked this quote, even though it probably applies to me (not sure if it is grammatically correct):
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

 

[pedro47]

I must share this with The English grammar person in the family.