![]() I probably wouldn't even be bothered by something like missing out the word "person" in your third sentence there - I'm talking not being able to structure sentences reliably at all, or missing things that a spellcheck would underline.įormatting errors wouldn't matter to me unless they made the CV unreadable. Everyone has access to that, genuinely everyone.Īwkward phrasing is fine - I'm talking about actual errors. Everyone should take the time to proofread a CV, use tools like spellcheck, and have someone look over it if necessary. I'm also not picky about the occasional error in work emails - it happens to everyone (and for work emails from non-native speakers I don't expect perfection at all).īut a CV is different. I wouldn't overlook those errors in a CV from people with dyslexia or if they're not a native speaker, and I'm not picky about social posts online. It only exists in writing and not in speech (where we don't say punctuation aloud).īoth of my comments contain comma splices, but my point by doing that is a) to make fun of you and b) to raise the point that casual online communication is an inappropriate place to be nitpicking strangers' grammar. Thus this is not a comma splice.Ī comma splice is when two clauses with different syntactic subjects are separated by a comma in writing without a conjunction or other special rule governing it. Similar to the last one, the word "when" begins a condition clause, and the conclusion clause comes after a comma. When I have 50+ CVs to work through, this kind of nonsense is my primary filter. In this case the clauses conjoined with "or" are treated as one clause comprising the logical condition of "if". ![]() The second is not a comma splice because it is the logical conclusion of the word "if", which begins a clause containing a logical condition, and separates it from the conclusion with a comma. ![]() The first is not a comma splice because it uses the conjunction "or", which separates two clauses with a comma. There are two commas separating clauses here. If you can't even bother to use the spell checker, or get your friend to give it a once over before sending it out, what else can you not be bothered to do? ![]()
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