Write a well thought out response to the article, covering the following: When the author quotes, your words are all you have what was the first thing that came to mind? What are 2 key takeaways as to why grammar is important at work? REMEMBER: Be mindful of your grammar throughout your writing for this class, I am looking for clear, concise writing. This response should be 2 paragraphs max.

Grammar has been getting attention in the media lately, and for good reason.The Wall Street Journal started the discussion last month with a piece aboutthe growing number of grammar gaffes in the office, especially among youngeremployees. Examples: Theres new people you should meet, instead of thereare new people you should meet, and he expected Helen and I to help him,instead of he expected Helen and me. The piece quoted managers and bosseswho were fed up with younger employees who bring the vernacular of emails,Twitter messages and casual conversations into the office, including theubiquitous use of the word like and those who say, I could care less, whenthey mean I couldnt care less. The piece mentioned a survey of 430employers taken earlier this year, in which 45% said they planned to increasetraining programs to improve employees use of grammar and other skills.Because I am over 50 and I was raised by grammar sticklers, I am sympatheticto managers complaints about rampant grammar mistakes. One of my parentspet peeves: The improper use of lay and lie. Anytime someone says Imtired and Im going to lay down, I cringe. You lay down an object, but you liedown on the bed.On the other hand, as my colleague Alison Griswold points out in a thoughtful,well-researched piece, experts recognize that language rules evolve, rather thanremain static. Alison gives some great examples, like the use of the wordsgoogle, access and reference as verbs. Access only went from being anoun to a verb in 1962, Alison learned from the Online Etymology Dictionary. Alison has several wonderful quotes from linguistics professor Alice Harris atUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst. Harriss conclusion, in short: languageis constantly changing, and often those changes bubble up from informalusage. I should probably let go of my fixation on lay and lie.Still, as a plainspoken piece on todays Harvard Business Review blog pointsout, its better to err on the side of grammar caution. The story is written byKyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, an online repair manual. Wiens says, simply, that hewont hire people who have bad grammar. He gives all of his job applicants agrammar test, making exceptions only for people with serious extenuatingcircumstances like dyslexia or those who are learning English as a secondlanguage. If job hopefuls can't distinguish between to and too, theirapplications go into the bin, he writes. Wiens explains that he cares aboutgrammar for two reasons. One, he points out, is that in this digital age, whenwe communicate increasingly in written texts and posts, your words are allyou have. We project ourselves through our written words, he notes. Anotherreason is that poor grammar shows a kind of sloppiness. Wiens wants to hirepeople who pay attention to detail.I can think of several other reasons that grammar is important, in spokenEnglish as well as in the written word. When you speak, you project your levelof intelligence and thoughtfulness. You also demonstrate how organized youare, in your thoughts and in your intentions. If you can get your sentencesstraight before you say them, youre promising that youre more likely tomaster tasks at work. In addition to good grammar, its best if you can scrubyour speech of awkward pauses, ums and uhs. The other thing eloquencesuggests is that you are listening closely to the other person, and youre seriousabout what you want to convey to that person. Good grammar and clearsentences suggest respect.Given how fast the digital world is changing the way we communicate, we maywitness a more rapid change in grammar rules. But for now, as Kyle Wienssensibly points out, its best to keep grammar rules in mind and try to abide bythem, when writing and speaking.