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Can I ask you a question about English grammar?

Yes, we would love to hear from you. Although we receive thousands of emails every day we don’t reply very quickly. So you might have to wait to get a reply from us, but one thing is for sure, we will reply to you. We have a panel of grammar experts who we forward the mail to regarding grammar questions, and they mail out the replies. The goal of online grammar checker is to assist the English writing world to improve their grammar. Not to repeat making the same mistakes over and over again. Encourage users to change their writing habits. Not by forcing them to do so, but by offering correct suggestions. The use of a single punctuation mark can change the entire meaning of a sentence. This is where writers have to be extra careful and make sure that the punctuation and the spellings are correct. Most of the popular word processors have inbuilt dictionaries which highlight spelling mistakes and encourage the writer to correct the spelling. For example, this sentence ‘the committee has now taken their seats’ might sound and look right, but, is it? No, it’s wrong the correct sentence will be ‘the members of the committee have now taken their seats’. This example shows the subtle grammar mistakes that we make. It requires a good knowledge of the English language to avoid making similar mistakes and improving one’s writing skills. The average English writer who writes formal and informal correspondence does make mistakes. Yes, this is a fact, if it wasn’t why would English dailies, magazines; TV news channels hire editors, assistant editors and proofreaders. So go ahead and ask us any English grammar question that you want, and we will answer it.