January 9th, 2008
60% of business correspondence has grammar or spelling errors
60% of all business correspondence still gets sent containing one or more grammar or spelling errors, according to WhiteSmoke. 32% of writers are failing to use all the words needed for a grammatically correct sentence. 28% of mistakes relate to punctuation, that is, knowing when to use a period, comma or question mark. Agreement between sentence elements comes up next in 8% of the data.
