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It's not being anal-retentive. Bad grammar pulls me out of the story, unless it's deliberate as in someone uneducated talking - even then, it takes me a bit longer to parse what they're supposed to be saying than good English does.
I just finished reading an excellent mystery - self-published, which I rarely read - and every so often there was a sentence fragment that just went *Klong!* and pulled me out. I'd have to go back and re-read a sentence before it and after it, to see whether I was missing something. It happened often enough to downgrade the book, but not (quite) often enough for me to stop reading. A good editor would have smoothed out those passages.
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