How important is grammar in conversation?

Correct grammar is your key to speaking English fluently and confidently. Knowing your grammar will help you avoid errors that make your English sound strange to native speakers.

Is correcting grammar a form of OCD?

It used to be we thought that people who went around correcting other people’s grammar were just plain annoying. Now there’s evidence they are actually ill, suffering from a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder/oppositional defiant disorder (OCD/ODD). Researchers are calling it Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome, or GPS.

Is correct grammar always necessary?

If you want to keep your reader engaged and interested in what you have to say, correct grammar is essential. Using proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling enables us, as writers, to convey our thoughts in a way that our reader will find easy to understand.

Should you worry about grammatical errors on your Facebook page?

Scientists have found that people who constantly get bothered by grammatical errors online have “less agreeable” personalities than those who just let them slide. And those friends who are super-sensitive to typos on your Facebook page?

Can your personality determine how you respond to typos and grammar errors?

That sounds pretty obvious, but this paper, which was published in PLOS One in 2016, was actually the first time researchers were able to show that a person’s personality traits can actually determine how they respond to typos and grammatical errors, and it could teach us a lot about how people communicate (or miscommunicate) online.

Are typos and grammatical errors Worse Than Perfect Spelling and grammar?

Overall, everybody rated the fictional housemate applicants with typos and grammatical errors in their emails as worse than those with perfect spelling and grammar. But there were definitely certain personality types that judged the typo-riddled applicants more harshly.