Good Grammar: It Helps You Get Ahead At Work

Okay, we’re a day late and a dollar short. Yesterday was National Grammar Day and for all of you grammarians out there, listen up.

Brad Hoover, CEO of Grammarly, a software suite improving communication, reminds us in a Harvard Business Review blog post that grammar permeates the work day. Whether it’s your e-mails, texts or even tweets, we can’t escape good grammar and why should we?

So if you cringe at a colleague who says the word “supposebly” (okay, that may not exactly fall into the grammar category but it’s a major pet peeve of ours nonetheless), according to the piece you should be detail-oriented and brush up on your skills.

For instance, Grammarly reviewed 100 LinkedIn profiles of native English-speakers in the consumer packaged goods industry.

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