Is it rude to correct someone's grammar mistakes in a conversation?

I will answer this question of yours with my own personal experience.. I also make many grammatical mistakes while am using English language. In my class, in front of my friends and etc.. Some people let my grammatical mistakes pass but some promt right away I make a mistake. I would say when I am with a close friend then it is totally ok for me if he or she corrects me, because I want them to correct me with a most obvious reason that I am most comfortable around your friends and if they won't correct me then who will? , so I don't mind any interruption from them. But when in public I am having a conversation with someone and he keeps me interrupting by correcting my English.. May be he is just trying to help me with this language but personally I feel that he is being rude!! I feel like.. "Oh look at you.. Mr.I know it all" Or he is saying that "I am wayyy better than you in every sense" Or "ohh these illiterate wannabes" This is only what I personally feel. I mean I AM trying my best over here.. Have some patience people!! And it also gives me a feeling that the other person is not really interested in what I am really trying to say .. instead of that he choose to correct my English for the time being and not pay attention to what I am saying. If my teacher corrects me then it is acceptable that that person is just trying to help me as a teacher.. But I don't want every one else to become my teacher!!! Some times it better to look over some mistakes of others. And not make them feel embarrased on themselves in front of every one!!

there is nothing wrong in correcting someones grammar mistakes.if we don't correct them, they will repeat the mistakes again .so for their good,it is better we teach them now.

well, i do that at times. I just can't help it. And yes sometimes i just want to slap my myself for it. I guess it also depends on the receiving party. Some of my friends want to correct their language and don't mind me correcting them. BUT of course i can't come across as authoritative and all. There are some acquaintances that i've come across that do get offended when i by habit correct them.

i think it would be very rude & very embarassing to the person you corrected. i had a woman do that way in sunday school one time. i had just started going to that church & it really embarassed me. makes you appear a know it all in my opinion.

My father kept on about my grammer for 18 years untill one day i snapped ,i went mad for an hour or so.Then i moved out of the house and lived by my self.

Dear friend, happy to hear that ur company business is English Teaching. My father is an English Professor in Tamil Nadu. He has finished Ph.D and has got the Doctorate. He is also the Vice Principal of his college. His retirement is on this April. Since he is an English Professor, he can't tolerate rubbish English. We have to correct wrong English. During Conversation, we can correct grammar mistakes, but it should be done without hurting others. The correction should be done politely. It is our duty to correct grammar mistakes and to help people to speak correct English. English is must when we go to any country.

Yes, I think it's rude not unless you are close to the one you are conversing with. There's no perfect man so better not to judge other's mistakes. We all must be comfortable of ourself for us to converse well. If you correct the on'e person's grammar, more probably, he/she will take it negatively, the result can be either he/she gets mad of you or his/her self-esteem and confidence will get down. This is my opinion. Happy mylotting!

I don't think so. English is just my foreign language. I don't mind people pointing out my mistakes. At least I can make a progress if I correct my mistakes. When you point out others' grammar mistakes, you can use a very polite way and I think people will accept to it happily. Or sometimes you can repeat other's sentence but with the correction. If he/she is smart, he/she will learn from it. I love China

I think it's partly rude in a sense that some people who correct grammar can't say it pretty well without embarrassing someone. For as long as i can understand what she's talking about then it doesn't matter to me, i'll let it pass. There's no point arguing about it. Although in chats, when i see some wrong grammars from my chatmate, i do correct her in a gentle manner telling her that it's ok so next time when she chats with other people, she'll get the correct terms or tenses.

I think its very rude to correct someones grammar. I dont want to feel like Im in english class everytime Im having a conversation or writing something online. As long you can still understand what they are saying who cares if their grammar isnt that good. Thats one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone trys correcting grammar.

What i think is that we should correct person's grammatical mistakes because once pinpointed the person will never repeat the same mistake.But a person should not be criticized for it in a negative manner.But he should be told about his mistakes in such a manner that he takes it in a positive note.

Sometimes it's okay to correct someone on their grammar and in other times it becomes very annoying for example if someone is posting comments on places like mylots and someone just sits their pointing out ever error you made when nine times out of ten the person is not worried about their grammar and their just talking it would be annoying to get a post back from someone editing everything you said wrong.

I think it always depends on the situation and the manner of correcting one's grammatical error. If you think you haven't mastered the art of making somebody realize his/her own mistakes, then just keep it to yourself. It becomes rude if you intend to make someone feel embarrassed especially when in front of other people. This will just create a gap between you and the person you corrected .

it depends on the type of discussion. if you are having a really in depth life discussion then no but if you are just conversing with your friends and they usually say something wrong then yes. you should correct them. also if you are having an in depth conversation you better make sure your grammer is correct to make yourself look smarter otherwise you will look like a person who has something to say but cant say it properly hence making you look stupid and invalidating your point.

I am going off of personal experience on this one. i wouldn't do it. if you think it is severally bad, i would take them off to the side and tell them. I know some would be offended. They may feel like you are personally attacking them.

I think that it is wrong to correct someone while he/she is talking. Sometimes in breaking inside the person talking that person lose his/her train of talk. In my country we speak Patois/Creole and english. There are some citizens who mix the creole and the english but what one should do is try and understand what the individual is saying. I think that it is one culture that makes one unique so instead of looking down or trying to change the individual just respect it. I will take Patois but to spell those words I cannot. lol

In my opinion, I have only corrected people who are close to me... because that's how I would like them to do when I become grammatically incorrect in front of them. Unless I was asked to help other people with letters, requests, memos, or any written documents that need correcting, then I would definitely lend my hand (with the capacity I have) with their english work.

I have a tendency to want to correct bad grammar or even bad spelling, lol. I usually try to curb that tendency and just keep the thoughts to myself! I don't want to hurt people's feelings.

It is rude, but I also work among an international community, and depending on the age group at that specific time I would make the correction, let me explain among the age group 10-20 I will make the correction but when I am among an older group I let it slide and later on I would make the correction, or exchange ideas how things are different among other cultures.

I would never correct a person's grammar mistakes unless I am asked to do so, explicitly. Although I happen to be a pedantic person, I resist the urge to correct someone, especially if I happen to not know him well. I have witnessed amusing situations when a person who is wrong himself corrects the other.