Subject: Re: Feature Request - Grammar Checker
From: Michael Leddy (mleddy@eiu.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 - 16:38:42 CDT
Robin wrote
> Grammar checkers are at best irritating and at worst misleading. In the
> days when I used MS Word, I would sometimes turn on the grammar checker
> for amusement. Frequently it would mark sentences as ungrammatical which
> I was convinced were perfectly normal English <snip>
You're absolutely right. There's a helpful writing handbook (the sort of
book college students use in freshman comp) by Diana Hacker, A Writer's
Reference, with sidebars pointing out (all through the book) the kinds of
mistakes grammar checkers cannot spot. Nothing can really replace a
writer's careful attention to his or her work. Michael
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