The role of Grammar in Writing

Lately, in today’s modern society I have noticed a lot of people using truncated words like ‘u’ for ‘you’ and the number ‘2’ for ‘to’ or ‘too’ when they write to their peers. They write to each other in a way that they think is fast and efficient. Most people use this way of communicating to get a quick note across. I think that this is certainly fine, but I find it disturbing when it turns into every e-mail, every text message, every blog post, and letter. Although using a single letter instead of a whole word may be faster, it is certainly not any more grammatically correct.

I believe that grammar is extremely important in writing; I honestly don’t think anyone should write anything without at least some standard of grammar. When we write, we should write in a way so that everyone, who chooses to, can read and comprehend our writing.

What if grammar started to lack in our society? What is going to stop other things from lacking as well? Imagine a business whose website’s content has sentences like “100% satisfactun or you're muny back garuntee!” It would make me ask (possibly legit) questions such as: “I wonder if their customer service is as bad as their spelling?”

If you read the Jack and Jill excerpts, you will notice that punctuation is everything. It changes the whole meaning of the excerpt if you just move a few periods and commas around here and maybe change some periods to exclamation points there. People form in their mind what they think you mean by the way you write and your grammar usage.

Even if I had the power to change grammar’s standards in our society, I wouldn’t. I feel it plays an important role in our ever changing world. I fear that, without it, we would become uncivilized people.


Link: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/