#GrammarNerd: Samsung fails ‘trade-in’ or ‘trade in’

What’s the difference between ‘trade-in’ and ‘trade in’?
A ‘trade-in’ is a noun.
To ‘trade in’ is a verb.

 

Clearly Samsung is in need of some grammar lessons and hasn’t done its homework:

Spot the grammar mistake: It is 'to trade in your current device', without a hyphen, as clearly, it is used as a verb.
Spot the grammar mistake: It is ‘to trade in your current device’, without a hyphen, as clearly, it is used as a verb.

 

In an erratic way Samsung swaps ‘trade-in’ with ‘trade in’ randomly at liberty instead of applying grammar rules consistently.

In addition, Samsung uses random capitalisation.
In the headline it can be a stylistic means to start all words with a capital letter.
But in a sentence capitalisation does not apply for nouns.

 

Yet Samsung tops this with a double whammy:
A noun instead of a verb plus capitalisation for no reason.

Spot the double whammy grammar mistake: It should be 'when you trade in', without a hyphen and without a capital 't'.
Spot the double whammy grammar mistake: It should be ‘when you trade in’, without a hyphen and without a capital ‘t’.

 

Has anyone at Samsung ever heard of proofreading?
This is a bad #GrammarFail.

 

 

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