With the informality of Instant Messages, it is easy to forgo proper grammar on the Internet; so in order to maintain professionalism, it is important to try to remember at least the most commonly used errors. Some of these are mistakes that spell check can catch. However, many of them are things that we simply have to watch for. So here are a few of the more popular mistakes. They may seem intuitive, but you would be surprised how many references agree, these are killers.

Here are the highlights that were particularly helpful to me:

Proper punctuation: