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From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
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Subject: Re: Looking for GRAMMAR checking program
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Date: 9 Apr 91 15:55:55 GMT
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In-Reply-To: shunho@wpi.WPI.EDU (Shun Ke Ho)

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In article <1991Apr8.192615.22573@wpi.WPI.EDU>, shunho@wpi (Shun Ke Ho) writes:
>Please response by email.

(Hee hee, a grammar error in a request for a grammar checker...)

I did, but here's an extract from the `old.questions' file in the
comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d archives.  As you
can see, this question reappears regularly.

S: Grammar checker
Q: afmintz@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allan Mintz) 8 Apr 90
Q: ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) 30 Apr 90
R: dlu@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Dan Lu) 9 Apr 90
>Grammatik III, from Reference Software, Inc., 330 Townsend Street,
>Suite 123, San Francisco, CA 94107.  Also a program called RightWriter.
R: ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Frank) 29 Apr 90
>Grammatik IV has been released.  I find a pretty fair number of its
>comments to be useless, but I still use it to find passive voice, &
>things like a word typed twicece, spelling, & basically, a guide to
>write by.  But on the whole, It's not a bad product.
R: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) 3 May 90
>Comparing Grammatik with RightWriter.  According to the review there
>is no comparison.  Grammatik is what you want.  New version of
>Grammatik described on p16 of April 30 1990 issue of InfoWorld.
Q: komatsu@aludra.usc.edu [Grammatik II Pro + Ami Pro. Editor] 19 May 90
Q: eakin@rsmas.miami.edu (C. Mark Eakin) [Grammatik III + WP5.0] 26 Apr 90
Q: davec@maxwell.Concordia.CA (Dave Chu) 2 Oct 90
R: dak@hpausla.aso.hp.com (Dave Kruger) 9 Oct 90
>Grammatik is worth every penny.
R: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) 10 Oct 90
>RightWriter [cites] two studies [which] rated ... grammar checkers ...
>based on the number of *incorrect* grammar recommendations.
>RightWriter averaged  13%, the nearest competitor was about 35% and
>the worst was 85%.
Q: alan@pluto.dss.com (Alan Warwick) 1 Nov 90
R: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) 3 Nov 90
>I've heard that both Grammatik and Sensible Grammar are okay.
R: boulder!bohemia!Greg.Smith (Greg Smith) 3 Nov 90
>Grammatick IV supports most popular wordprocessors.
Q: jps@uh.msc.umn.edu (Jeff P. Sorvik) 7 Feb 91
R: v087mxgb@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Shawn E Thompson) 7 Feb 91
>I used Right Writer for a while. I hated everything about it.
R: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) 8 Feb 91
>I use Grammatik IV.
R: kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) 11 Feb 91
>I use both RightWriter and Grammatik.  I have found that the reports
>from RightWriter help me more than those from Grammatik.
R: davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) 12 Feb 91
>I use Grammatik IV occasionally. It will help you find stupid mistakes,
>but its suggestions are frequently wrong.
Q: ce3wa3bh@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Eric Ho) 22 Feb 91
R: enzerinkp@topaz.ucq.edu.au (Peter Enzerink) 24 Feb 91
>"MyStyle" (Shareware) analyses a document in ASCII format and provides lots of
>information; e.g., word/sentence/paragraph lengths, passive voice, sexist
>content, etc.  The key difference between MyStyle and other programs
>is that Mystyle is used to determine the overall readability
>of a document, not point at problems in every line.  It will appear on
>Simtel sometime soon.  Otherwise, you can order it from the author.
>The cost is AU$10 for the Unregistered version (add overseas postage if you
>want AIRMAIL) and AU$45 for the Registered version.  Write to
>Peter Enzerink, PO Box 356, Rockhampton 4700 AUSTRALIA.