Abstract: A system for automatically providing different levels of formality controls in a communication is disclosed, in which a formality level is determined based on a current communication context. The formality level is used to enable an appropriate level of automatic checking of the communication contents. The determination of a formality level for a communication may be based on any specific context information regarding the participants and/or contents of a communication. including but not limited to the relative positions of participants within an organizational hierarchy (“organizational distance”), the professional relationships of the participants (e.g. service provider to client/customer), the frequency of communications between participants, the geographic locations of participants, the number of previous errors in the communication contents, configurable participant preferences, express communication settings by participants, etc.