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Management Bits and Tips 0×1 - Many managers have flawless writing skills (bit). Use Google to check your writing (tip).

It is especially important for non-native English speakers like me. You can search simple sub-sentences and their alterations to compare search results.

For example, today I had a discussion about this sub-sentence:

“It’s main advantage is “

It gives 539 search results. However the sentence without apostrophe

“Its main advantage is “

gives 8,870 search results. Let’s check combinations with two “it”.

  • “It’s main advantage is it’s ” - 192
  • “Its main advantage is it’s ” - 0
  • “It’s main advantage is its ” - 299
  • “Its main advantage is its ” - 836

So you get the idea of what is more correct or more widely used from descriptive grammar point of view. 

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org -

           

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This entry was posted on Thursday, December 13th, 2007 at 5:52 pm and is filed under Management Bits and Tips, Software Technical Support. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Flawless writing with Google”

  1. Dmitry Vostokov Says:
    December 16th, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    Someone immediately registered bitsandtips domain on the date of this post, what a coincidence :-)

  2. Dmitry Vostokov Says:
    December 18th, 2007 at 3:04 pm

    All management bits and tips now go

    http://www.managementbits.com/

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