I just bumped into a great post from Aurelius Tjin, titled ‘Are You Making These Seven Common Grammatical Errors?‘.

This post instantly caught my attention, because I’m fully aware of the fact that grammatical errors on a (sales)site give a bad impression, and with English not being my native language, grammatica is something I need to pay attention to.

Here’s a short extract: 

Here are seven critical mistakes that we should avoid in our web prints:

1. There, Their, They’re

Playing with contractions is risky if you quickly type what you think. “There” is a multi-functional word that denotes a point, place or space. Since “there” is used as an adverb, noun, pronoun, or adjective, we woefully abuse the usage of the word making it a possessive pronoun (their) or as a contraction of “they are” (they’re).

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