There are a few basic rules to grammar. If you use a full stop, like this. Then hit enter twice, you leave a double space after a full stop. If a name or place ends with ‘s’ you don’t need to put an extra ‘s’ on the end when you talk about them, you just put a comma after their name, so for example, taking the English name Andrew, we would write ‘Andrew’s’ when talking about something they owned, but if we were talking about Chris, we would write “Chris’”. Good rule of thumb is, if it ends with an ‘s’ then you just put a comma after it, you don’t need anything more.
Spelling can be tricky, and even people who write a lot can be ‘word blind’ Heavens knows, I am, to the word ‘Weird’. I don’t even know if I have typed that correctly, ‘Phenomena’ is another one. Some words just don’t scan properly in our brains, and therefore are hard to write correctly. It is a case of practice and, well, yes, Spellchecking. There is nothing wrong with using a spellchecker, I mean before sending any professional email, you spellcheck it to make sure you have not made a mistake. Everyone has their flaws, mine is one of the simplest words in the English Language, and I am famed in my Guild for it, it is a source of much amusement during my DM’d events. When trying to type out a sentence swiftly, I will somehow never manage to type ‘The’ but will instead type ‘Teh’ No idea why, happens all the time. It Is bizarre…
So, sometimes it is a case of typing slower, and if you are not sure what you have typed is correct, to use an online spellchecker to see if it is. Most people will be patient enough to wait for a response.
Oddly I was talking to a Guild member of mine who is French the other day, and we were talking about languages and how the words look different from how they sound phonetically, so I can completely get why it would be tricky. English is a tricky language, even for native speakers… You will always make mistakes, I know there are certain words I simply cannot get right, but the internet does give us ways of checking, use them.
I am going to use your last statement there as an example, and please, please, do -not- take this as mockery, I am just trying to clarify a point.
The way I would have posted that would be;
“Sure, I’d appreciate all the help I can get.”
Use of commas is important, it forms a natural change in conversation, it is almost like a symbol indicating a pause… “Sure…I’d appreciate all the help I can get” As opposed to just one full-on statement.
Another thing, whenever you use ‘I’ as a stand alone word, meaning yourself, or as part of a word like ‘I’d’ It is always a Capital I, never a low case ‘I’.
I’m going to stop now because I sound like a pretentious Douchebag, but those are some good rules…