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Most people think big companies use grammar very . Many people about Apple's use of grammar with its "Think Different" advertising in the late 1990s. A new study shows that big companies make grammar mistakes. The website Grammarly.com looked at the writing of of the world's most famous companies. It found that they made mistakes. It also found that the companies who made the mistakes made the most money. Grammarly compared the made by the companies on the social network site LinkedIn.com. It looked at the , grammar and punctuation errors in 400 words of from each company.

Grammarly the mistakes made by Coke and Pepsi, Facebook and Google, and Ford and General Motors (GM). It that Coke made four times fewer writing mistakes than Pepsi. Coke has a share of the cola market than Pepsi. Google made four times fewer mistakes than Facebook. It also makes a more money. Finally, GM made more mistakes than Ford, which is a more company. It is that the occasional grammar mistake will make you buy a Coke of a Pepsi. However, Grammarly CEO Brad Hoover said: "Accurate writing professionalism…and customers are more likely to buy a product or a service from a company they ."

 
 

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