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spell checking: false negative for "Subject-verb agreement"
"As the compile progresses, each object is overwritten by the next." the spell checker treats "progresses" as a plural noun. this means that it complains that its attendant verb, "is", has the wrong number. am i wrong to consider it a verb, and the noun for "is" to be "object"? many thanks, e. |
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spell checking: false negative for "Subject-verb agreement"
No, you're not wrong, and it is rather odd for Word even to consider
"progresses" a noun, but I suspect that this is caused by your use of "compile" as a noun, which confuses Word, which is treating it as a verb (though it's hard to see what it would think the subject of "compile" is). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "exotericist" wrote in message ... "As the compile progresses, each object is overwritten by the next." the spell checker treats "progresses" as a plural noun. this means that it complains that its attendant verb, "is", has the wrong number. am i wrong to consider it a verb, and the noun for "is" to be "object"? many thanks, e. |
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spell checking: false negative for "Subject-verb agreement"
On Jan 9, 10:53*am, exotericist wrote:
"As the compile progresses, each object is overwritten by the next." the spell checker treats "progresses" as a plural noun. this means that it complains that its attendant verb, "is", has the wrong number. am i wrong to consider it a verb, and the noun for "is" to be "object"? Your sentence is perfectly grammatical. Grammar checkers are even more useless than spell checkers. (However, a careful stylist might not use "compile" as a noun!) |
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spell checking: false negative for "Subject-verb agreement"
Hi E.,
Just curious - what version of Word and what language and grammar settings? I wasn't getting an error on that sentence with English(U.S.) =========== "exotericist" wrote in message ... "As the compile progresses, each object is overwritten by the next." the spell checker treats "progresses" as a plural noun. this means that it complains that its attendant verb, "is", has the wrong number. am i wrong to consider it a verb, and the noun for "is" to be "object"? many thanks, e. -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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