Looking for love on Valentine's Day? Good grammar may help.
If you're single and looking for a mate on an online dating site, be aware that the writing skills people display in their online dating profiles affect their chances of finding romance.
Our friends at Grammarly partnered with the online dating website eHarmony to find out just how much of an impact grammar and writing skills have in the online dating arena. The results may surprise you.
For example:
- Men who properly use “whom” get 31 percent more contacts from the opposite sex.
- For men, just two spelling errors reduced the chances of a response by 14 percent, but writing mistakes women made did not seem to impact their chances of a positive match.
- Both men and women said they would give grammar more weight than confidence when judging a date.
Grammarly put together the infographic below with the full results:
Jacquelyn Lynn is an inspirational author, ghostwriter, and self-publishing consultant whose credits include more than 45 books, 3,000+ magazine articles, ebooks, blogs, white papers, and more.
Jacquelyn's latest book is Christian Business Almanac: The Ultimate Daily Guide for Kingdom-Driven Entrepreneurs and Leaders.
She is the author of the nonfiction books Simple Facts About Self-Publishing (Second Edition), Words to Work By: 31 devotions for the workplace based on the Book of Proverbs and Finding Joy in the Morning: You can make it through the night as well as the novel Choices (A Joyful Cup Story). With her husband, she is the co-creator of several coloring books for adults and the novelty My Book About series.
Jacquelyn's latest book is Christian Business Almanac: The Ultimate Daily Guide for Kingdom-Driven Entrepreneurs and Leaders.
She is the author of the nonfiction books Simple Facts About Self-Publishing (Second Edition), Words to Work By: 31 devotions for the workplace based on the Book of Proverbs and Finding Joy in the Morning: You can make it through the night as well as the novel Choices (A Joyful Cup Story). With her husband, she is the co-creator of several coloring books for adults and the novelty My Book About series.
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