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English matters most Readers won’t ever forgive you for the fatal syntax mistakes

by Gyanvitaranam

    The other day I was reading an article of a very famous columnist in a popular English monthly magazine online. Thought-provoking ideas kept amusing me and I got sincerely fascinated by the inspiring contents. I went on reading and relishing it. All of a sudden, I felt a jerk in the reading rhythm and stopped at a paragraph of a few meaningful but grammatically incorrect sentences.

   The sentences read as, “The stories of the less privileged and lower-segment-people of the society evoke sympathy and calls for urgent steps to correct the menaces they find themselves vulnerable to and stuck in. Millions of people in the country of approximately 1.30 billion population struggle hard to eke out their livelihood. When will the sun of prosperity dawn upon them who make the lives of the rest of the people cosy and comfortable?”

   Motivation-wise the article was of very superb quality but a few grave mistakes, rather....

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