Dangling participles, and the sort

Okay, I have not written recently, so here goes.

Most of my stuff has been fairly heavy reading, so here is something in a lighter vein.

I recent began some independent contract (IC) work for several companies. Part of the work involves writing reports, the companies are anxious to have well written reports from the IC's that do not require a lot of editing before the reports are usable. Thus the companies "threaten" the IC's by saying that their reports will be downgraded, and perhaps their fee will be reduced, if the spelling and grammar is poor.

In the middle of one such "threat," I found the following sentence: "Our system may be a little tougher than some other companies you might shop for; we have very high standards." So, what is the problem? Having first checked with my grammarian daughter, she confirmed my suspicion that the quoted sentence is itself poorly written. She suggested the sentence might be rewritten as follows: "Our system may be a little tougher than some other companies for which you shop; we have very high standards."

Later in the same list of requirements I also found a few misspelled words, mostly dropped letters from the ends of the words. No problem really, the sentences are perfectly understandable as written. I cannot claim to be a master of typing, let alone writing, myself; I tend to drop the "h" out of the word "the," I guess I am typing too fast.

I do, however, use the spell checker to find my spelling and grammar errors; plus I am not demanding that others attain to that which I myself do not comply.

My daughter is right, the more "correct" ones writing is, the less "readable" it becomes. It also tends to have less personality and punch. But, why do people demanding spelling and grammatical correctness not comply with their own standards? I just had to laugh about it!

How many of my errors can you find in this posting?