DominO123 Posted August 14, 2004 Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 I was wondering if anyone here knew a good English grammar corrector software? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted August 14, 2004 Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 There are none. Grammar is something you have to acquire either by being exposed to it a lot or by learning it. All these machines that I know of (maybe there's more advanced one by now...) can only "correct" 2% of your mistakes. The rest of the "corrections" won't make sense, because it only scans parts of sentences it is programmed to scan, rather than the context of the sentence and its meaning. If you ask me, get yourself a good grammar book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted August 14, 2004 Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 Yup. Not that my English grammer is OK but I have a faith in me. There're some spheres, like sex, where software is not much a of a help. You just gotta do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted August 14, 2004 Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 I was wondering if anyone here knew a good English grammar corrector software? Corrected in MS word "I was wondering if anyone here knew good English grammar corrector software?" Corrected to what I would think would be correct "I was wondering if anyone here knew of good English grammar corrector software? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted August 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2004 Corrected in MS word "I was wondering if anyone here knew good English grammar corrector software?" Corrected to what I would think would be correct "I was wondering if anyone here knew of good English grammar corrector software? Yeh, that is a mistake made by Word corrector, it takes off the "a." Nairi, in French, there exist interesting correctors, two products from Quebec, Correcteur 101 and Antidote are exceptional. There is a bilingule version of the Correcteur which does English, but I do not like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted August 15, 2004 Report Share Posted August 15, 2004 Yup. Not that my English grammer is OK but I have a faith in me. There're some spheres, like sex, where software is not much a of a help. You just gotta do it! Yeah Armen, Sex and Football are the two things that I cannot watch. I would rather participate!!! BTW, Domino I have an original solution to your problem. Check this out: http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=7067 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted August 15, 2004 Report Share Posted August 15, 2004 Gamavor, that's spelling! Actually most Word spell-checkers aren't that bad compared to the grammar ones. I always proofread again after spell-checking, which I forget to do more often than not.. Fadio, don't know that software, but it must be really good if what you say is true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted August 15, 2004 Report Share Posted August 15, 2004 Naircho, isn't spelling part of the grammar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted August 15, 2004 Report Share Posted August 15, 2004 I guess, if you take into consideration that everything in a language is related... I was thinking more of the distinction between the two. Syntax is one thing, spelling something else, unless you bring in inflectional morphology affected by syntax in language like French in "La petite fille est tombée". But to spell "Armenia"? Not sure how much grammar you need for that... Unless... you go into the "where to place Armenia in a sentence". You can say "I'm going to Armenia", but not "I'm going to Armenian". And in order to know when to use which spelling in a sentence, indeed, you need some grammar... But, if you look further, you'll see that you don't need to mix spellings if you know the grammar rule and where the words you want to use belong. In this case, Armenia is a noun, and Armenian an adjective. If you know how nouns and adjectives are used in English sentences, you only need to learn the spelling by heart and use the words according to the grammar rule and not that of the spelling. Long rant... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted August 15, 2004 Report Share Posted August 15, 2004 Yeh, that is a mistake made by Word corrector, it takes off the "a." I don't think it is a mistake. "Software" is plural, so you can't use an "a". It's like saying "does anyone here know a good restaurants". But taking away the "a" changes the meaning of what you were trying to say, which is why I thought using "of" rather than "a" sounds better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted August 15, 2004 Report Share Posted August 15, 2004 Interesting analysis Steve But what about "knew". Of course it's grammatically correct, but does it make sense in the meaning Domino is trying to convey, namely, whether anyone here at this moment knows of grammar corrector software? So the question, in Domino's meaning, should really be: "I was wondering if anyone here knows of good English grammar corrector software?". Or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted August 16, 2004 Report Share Posted August 16, 2004 But what about "knew". Of course it's grammatically correct, but does it make sense in the meaning Domino is trying to convey, namely, whether anyone here at this moment knows of grammar corrector software? So the question, in Domino's meaning, should really be: "I was wondering if anyone here knows of good English grammar corrector software?". Or not? I think you are right, Nairi, but that would have meant having to point out two errors in Domino's original sentence, rather than just one! Though - since Domino was wondering about asking rather than just asking - should the sentence actually have a question mark? Should it be "I was wondering, 'does anyone here know of good English grammar correcting software'." Let's split a few hundred more peas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anileve Posted August 16, 2004 Report Share Posted August 16, 2004 Fine-toothed comb anyone? http://www.chicagohs.org/wetwithblood/images/bloody/062%20comb.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted August 16, 2004 Report Share Posted August 16, 2004 Though - since Domino was wondering about asking rather than just asking - should the sentence actually have a question mark? Should it be "I was wondering, 'does anyone here know of good English grammar correcting software'." Let's split a few hundred more peas. I was thinking the same thing! Domino is not actually asking a question! But making a statement, namely that he is wondering about something. A good grammar corrector should notice this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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