Changes in the modern English language have been noticed by linguists from different universities; most of these changes tend to be quite astonishing. The English language has been negatively affected by the rise of the Internet, smartphones and social media. To start with, students are starting to make more unintended grammatical errors in their writing assignments at school. The cause of students increasingly making more errors in schoolwork is directly related to text messages that are becoming more popular among smartphone users. A recent study, which was carried out in the Pennsylvania State University in Pennsylvania US, showed that students who used more texting abbreviation with their friends also performed worse on a grammar proficiency exam. Perhaps the biggest problem wasn’t texting itself, only the use of abbreviations in sentences. Examples of messaging applications include ‘LINE’, ‘Whatsapp’, ‘Facebook message’ and ‘We chat’. Teenagers are now wanting to text faster because they feel they have to be able to ‘catch up’ with the topic that their friends are talking about; therefore, teenagers tend to minimize their usage of their words because they are sometimes not aware of the grammar errors that they make during conversations. Examples of grammatical errors that pupils tend to make in school as a result from unduly using their smartphones are: not being able to distinguish between “Who” and “whom” as well as “dangling modifiers”. The word “who” is used as the subject of a sentence or phrase whereas “whom” is used as the object of a verb in order to denote who has something done to it (like him or her). Students are not using these two words in the right context; they interchange the use of those words in any order. Dangling modifiers are words or phrases that modifies a word not clearly stated in a sentence. An example of the use of dangling modifiers is ‘hoping to garner favour