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From: davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Grammer Checkers
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Date: 12 Feb 91 17:28:16 GMT
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I use Grammatik IV occasionally. It will help you find stupid mistakes
but you still have to know the grammar rules yourself because it's
suggestions are frequently wrong. It just doesn't understand context very
well. I have found a number of places where it will recomend using a
different word, and once you change it it will recomend putting the
original word back (of course I know real editors who do that too.)

It also has a problem with dialog. It can't be convinced that '"Why?" she
asked.' is a single sentence. It insists that 'she' should be capitalized.
While I did get some value out of the program (mostly finding passive
sentences) it doesn't really find the kinds of mistakes I make.