THE ability to spot a minor grammar error is proof that you are amazing, it has been confirmed. 

Researchers at the Institute for Studies found that people who loudly exclaim about apostrophes and ‘who versus whom’ are actually better than everyone else. 

Professor Pau, not his real name, said: “In no way are any of these people vain, arsey pedants. 

“Grammar perfectionists are both intellectually and morally superior to other types of human. 

“The way they selflessly dedicate themselves to correct punctuation, for example by pointing out to the staff of a chip shop why the term ‘chip’s’ is a sloppy obfuscation, confirms they are bold and righteous individuals. 

“If grammar people just learned to let things go sometimes, where would we be as a civilisation? Just fighting in mud, probably.” 

56-year-old Michelle, not her real name, said: “Heaven forbid that my scrupulous attention to linguistic detail should be driven by intellectual vanity. 

“The reason I loudly vocalise my frustration about a writer confusing ‘that’ and which’ is because of my passion for good English. 

“It’s not that I want a crowded room to know how clever I am.” 

43-year-old pedant Lewis, not his real name, said: “So we are ‘generally better’? Better than whom? Better is a relative term. 

“But perhaps you didn’t know that.”