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From: rda@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Robert Dale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Grammar Checker
Summary: Not all of those programs are grammar checkers!
Message-ID: <4052@scott.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Feb 91 17:10:48 GMT
References: <1991Feb14.025044.2809@cs.dal.ca>
Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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In article <1991Feb14.025044.2809@cs.dal.ca>, paixao@ug.cs.dal.ca 
(Nuno M. Paixao) writes:

> I have been able to get the name of three different ones that are
> commercially available.They are:
> 
> 1. Correct Grammar (from Lifetree Software)
> 2. Sensible Grammar (from Sensible Software)
> 3. MacProof (from Lexpertise)

Only the first of these is actually a grammar checker.  As a colleague
said of "Sensible Grammar" on exploring the package:  "it would seem
that the only sensible grammar is no grammar at all".

The only other Mac grammar checker is Grammatik, but Correct Grammar
is far superior.

R
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