Grammar is 'problematic' for adults

Many adults are sending and receiving documents that contain grammatical errors, a new survey has found.

Conducted by WhiteSmoke, a survey of 5,000 documents written by adults revealed that 85% contained at least one error, Online Recruitment reports.

And 27% of adults made the mistake of leaving out words such as 'a,' 'an' and 'the.'

However, nearly half of the participants of the study did recognise that it is important to produce quality writing, although only 50% of the respondents said they double-check a piece of writing before sending it to their boss.

Vice President of Sales and Marketing for WhiteSmoke, Amit Green, stated that when a document is important to a person's career, they are more likely to check through it.

'The poor quality of writing today is a worrying phenomenon. However, it is encouraging to know that despite getting basic sentences wrong, the majority of survey participants regard quality writing as important to them,' he said.

According to a recent survey from the Chartered Insurance Institute, 61% of financial services sector employers claimed that graduates lacked basic numeracy and literacy skills.