Management Bits and Tips

Flawless writing skills are very important to avoid negative impression (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 results
• “Its main advantage is it’s ” - 0 results
• “It’s main advantage is its “ - 299 results
• “Its main advantage is its ” - 836 results

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

Copied with minor corrections from my Crash Dump Analysis blog

- Dmitry Vostokov @ ManagementBits.com -

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