One Sheep, Two Sheep, One Fish, Two Fish.Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Grammar category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below: Once you accept that the MS Word grammar checker can get it wrong, it’s amazing how many mistakes you will spot.

So, what’s a poor writer to do? The answer is to get some grammar help from different sources, and to proofread. The study concluded that the grammar check worked better for good writers than for those who needed a lot of help. (Check out the letter from Karen for a laugh.)

The University of Washington has some demos of where the grammar checker went wrong. Proper names that end in an ‘s’ also confuse the grammar checker, and that’s not all. The grammar checker will remind me about every instance of using passive sentences, but has some strange attitudes to noun and verb agreements. Generally, I write grammatically correct British English, but it only takes one typo to confuse the tool. These match my own experience with the tool. Ignore that if you want, but the Seattle Post Intelligencer, which presumably has no ax to grind, also wrote a piece on the failings of Word’s grammar checker. Neurogrammar, which is admittedly biased, compares the results from its own grammar checker and Word. In fact, people have been complaining about it for years. However, the MS Word grammar checker leaves a lot to be desired. In general, I don’t have an issue with the spell checker, though mine occasionally has a problem with the correct spelling of liaison. Many of us use Microsoft Word for writing, and its built-in spelling and grammar checker for checking our work. However, the trouble is that the tools we often use just aren’t up to the job. Most people who advise on writing tell you to check the spelling and grammar on your work. Warning: Microsoft Did Not Invent Grammar! By Sharon

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