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Grammar guide 1 Guide to Grammar in the Workplace ? WHY IT MATTERS This isn ? t about rules or points on homework This is about your personal brand your attention to detail and the care you have for excellent work The more educated your audience the more

Guide to Grammar in the Workplace ? WHY IT MATTERS This isn ? t about rules or points on homework This is about your personal brand your attention to detail and the care you have for excellent work The more educated your audience the more they ? ll notice little mistakes that can potentially paint you and your company in a bad light CAPITALIZATION COMMON GRAMMAR ERRORS TO AVOID ? You capitalize proper nouns which are speci ?c people places and things ? This includes o The letter ? i ? by itself is ALWAYS capitalized There are zero exceptions to this rule o Business names Convercent SeedPaths Nike Microsoft o People ? s names Bob Harris Sarah Johnson Pablo Garcia o City state and country names Denver CO or Denver Colorado o ??Famous stu ? ? movie game titles teams landmarks etc ? Be aware of the fact that some companies purposely spell their name with a lowercase thoughtbot or have two capitals within the name SeedPaths Spell them exactly correct or it ? s clear you don ? t really care PARALLEL AGREEMENT ? Tenses must be the same in one statement and or list o I wrote letters interviewed executives and edited my work o My job included executing project plans writing test scripts and developing software ? Companies are things that do stu ? so don ? t refer to them as people who do stu ? o SeedPaths is a company THAT teaches tech Not SeedPaths is a company WHO ? o Paul is a person WHO is a badass coder Not Paul is a person THAT SPELLING ? Whts crzy is tht yu cn rd ths bt its obvsly wrng Use spell check people There ? s no excuse for not spelling words correctly Most programs ?x this for you but don ? t be lazy Don ? t know Look it up PUNCTUATION ? End every sentence with a period exclamation point or question mark ? Use commas semicolons apostrophes and colons correctly Don ? t know Ask or look it up o Im isn ? t never ever correct but I ? m or I am always is ? Don ? t overuse things like exclamation points or question marks It ? s written screaming Or you sound VERY confused WORD CHOICE CLARITY ? Be VERY careful with homonyms homophones Common confusions include o There vs Their vs They ? re o Its vs It ? s o To vs Two vs Too ? Say what you mean but be sure you are clear and accurate all the time If you ? re not quite sure what a word means choose another word Concise is always best ? In many cases you can break up really long unclear sentences into shorter more clear sentences Clear simple writing trumps verbose overly fancy writing all day every day ? Know your facts Never lie be direct and know your stu ? SPACING FORMAT ?