Grammar Gripe

Okay people, spot the error(s): 

Your cover letter tells an employer a lot about you, good or bad. Think of it as a sales pitch. It’s primary purpose is to show why your skills and background are a perfect match for the position for which you're applying. It is not the place to present all of your experience, that should already be showcased in your resume.

Comments

[Allan]

It's Its, not It's.

[cassie-b]

And --- why would you tell a prospective employer anything bad about you.

[Alison]

You got it! I couldn't believe it. In the next paragraph, the writer explained the importance of an error-free letter. [insert eyeroll]

[Thomas]

I would have written it thusly:

"Good or Bad, your cover letter tells an employer a lot about you. Think of it as a sales pitch: Its primary purpose is to show why your skills and background are a perfect match for the position for which you're applying. It's not the place to present all of your experience; that should already be showcased in your resume."

Of course, I'm a colon/semi-colon freak.

(No, I'm not going to suggest I explore YOUR colon.)

[bee]

Why it's the English comma, of course! Why have two proper sentences when you can just make a big divided one using a comma? Sometimes when I am feeling sarcastic, I write in my journal-dou thingy that way.

[Alison]

Yes, Thomas, that comma-instead-of-a-semi-colon thing was bugging me, too.

Bee, two sentences would have worked, too.

I'm composing a cover letter in my head as I'm converting my cv to readable ASCII.

[LittleMike]

Its vs. It's: OK, here's my take. 'It's' is the contraction for 'it is' or 'it has'.

'Its' is possesive.

Counterintuitive, but, that's the law!

[Alison]

That's right, LittleMike.

Sooooo many people use "it's" for the possessive. It's enough to drive a woman nuts!

[bhd]

The it's/its thing has driven me insane. Yeah, that's it. And there's nothing wrong with a semi-colon every now and then.

[Margaret]

Apostrophes where they are not correct make me crazy. I overuse semi-colons though.

[Allan]

I thought that semi-colons, like cowbell, could never be overused.

[LittleMike]

I never learned how to use semi-colons.

[Heimo]

if most of you english speaking folk doesn't know about correct spelling of 'it´s' vs. 'its' - me as an english grammar rules ignoring German feel free to use 'em my way - & english commas, they are so total different to the use of commas in German, where in my minds eye are much too much commas used - since all I know of the language confusion in different languages I feel free to use '-'s and ';' etc. just like I want to place them around in my texts (exactly I gave up the use of ';' (semicolons) since some years totaly off my writing- they are so 'in between'..) - well I may think different if I write an application in another country one time - but I would ask a friend: " hey, can you set my commas right?"