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Most people think big companies use grammar very [good / well] . Many people wondered about Apple's [use / used] of grammar with its "Think Different" advertising campaign in the [lately / late] 1990s. A new study shows that big companies [make / do] grammar mistakes. The proofreading website Grammarly.com looked [on / at] the writing of six of the world's most famous companies. It found that they [every / all] made mistakes. It also found that the companies who made the fewest mistakes [did / made] the most money. Grammarly compared the [commands / comments] made by the companies on the [social / socially] network site LinkedIn.com. It looked at the spelling, grammar and punctuation [errors / terrors] in 400 words of text from each company.

Grammarly compared the mistakes made [by / of] Coke and Pepsi, Facebook and Google, and Ford and General Motors (GM). It found [this / that] Coke made four times fewer [writing / writes] mistakes than Pepsi. Coke has a bigger [fair / share] of the [store / market] than Pepsi. Google made nearly four times fewer mistakes than Facebook. It also makes a [lot / loads] more money. Finally, GM made more mistakes than Ford, which is a [much / more] profitable company. It is unlikely that the [occasion / occasional] grammar mistake will make you buy a Coke [instead / rather] of a Pepsi. However, Grammarly CEO Brad Hoover said: "Accurate writing demonstrates professionalism…and customers are more likely to [bought / buy] a product or a service from a company they trust."