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slightly OT, but anyone know...
....of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for
grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation? everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply. anybody know of something very, very effective? |
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slightly OT, but anyone know...
Google turned up the following:
http://www.yourdictionary.com/dictio...e-grammar.html http://spellcheckplus.com/ http://www.grammarly.com/?q=grammar&...FQa0bwodgg1yFw -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... ...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation? everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply. anybody know of something very, very effective? |
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slightly OT, but anyone know...
"Robert Macy" wrote in message
... ...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation? everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply. anybody know of something very, very effective? Send a copy to your old high school English teacher! bj |
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slightly OT, but anyone know...
The problem with that is Ms. Lunt (Gertrude) would probably come round to my house to rap me over the knuckles with a ruler and say, 'write out 1,000 lines, 'I taught you correct grammar at school''.
Terry Farrell "bj" wrote in message ... "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... ...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation? everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply. anybody know of something very, very effective? Send a copy to your old high school English teacher! bj |
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slightly OT, but anyone know...
:-)
-- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP (Message posted via msnews.microsoft.com) "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... The problem with that is Ms. Lunt (Gertrude) would probably come round to my house to rap me over the knuckles with a ruler and say, 'write out 1,000 lines, 'I taught you correct grammar at school''. Terry Farrell "bj" wrote in message ... "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... ...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation? everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply. anybody know of something very, very effective? Send a copy to your old high school English teacher! bj |
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slightly OT, but anyone know...
That would be tough for some of us. I don't think the dearly departed read
their mail. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "bj" wrote in message ... "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... ...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation? everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply. anybody know of something very, very effective? Send a copy to your old high school English teacher! bj |
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slightly OT, but anyone know...
On Jun 3, 5:19*pm, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
wrote: Google turned up the following: http://www.yourdictionary.com/dictio...online-grammar... http://spellcheckplus.com/ http://www.grammarly.com/?q=grammar&...FQa0bwodgg1yFw -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... ...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation? everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply. anybody know of something very, very effective? thank you for these URLs. the first one had four sites, each were spell check only, the last was 30 days or $49 the second one was spell check only the third was spell check only until I asked for grammar then it said it won't work with my browzer! kept wanting me to run WinXP and later programs. That's crazy! this is a text monitoring program, why would anyone need higher than DOS!!! Odd it is so difficult to find out if punctuation is correct. |
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slightly OT, but anyone know...
On Jun 3, 6:31*pm, "bj" wrote:
"Robert Macy" wrote in message ... ...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation? everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply. anybody know of something very, very effective? Send a copy to your old high school English teacher! bj LOL! Delay is tooooo long, plus when I ran it by 3 different English 'experts' I got three different answers!!! |
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slightly OT, but anyone know...
While when I went to school 50 odd years ago, learning grammar was a major
component of English lessons, more recently in schools here, it is no longer taught so there is a whole generation that would not know if something was grammatically incorrect, or at least what was grammatically incorrect about some text. Fortunately, steps are now being taken to re-introduce the teaching of grammar in schools. However none of the current crop of teachers were taught it themselves, so it is going to be a struggle. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... On Jun 3, 5:19 pm, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Google turned up the following: http://www.yourdictionary.com/dictio...online-grammar... http://spellcheckplus.com/ http://www.grammarly.com/?q=grammar&...FQa0bwodgg1yFw -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... ...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation? everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply. anybody know of something very, very effective? thank you for these URLs. the first one had four sites, each were spell check only, the last was 30 days or $49 the second one was spell check only the third was spell check only until I asked for grammar then it said it won't work with my browzer! kept wanting me to run WinXP and later programs. That's crazy! this is a text monitoring program, why would anyone need higher than DOS!!! Odd it is so difficult to find out if punctuation is correct. |
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slightly OT, but anyone know...
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On Jun 4, 3:34*pm, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
wrote: While when I went to school 50 odd years ago, learning grammar was a major component of English lessons, more recently in schools here, it is no longer taught so there is a whole generation that would not know if something was grammatically incorrect, or at least what was grammatically incorrect about some text. Fortunately, steps are now being taken to re-introduce the teaching of grammar in schools. *However none of the current crop of teachers were taught it themselves, so it is going to be a struggle. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... On Jun 3, 5:19 pm, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Google turned up the following: http://www.yourdictionary.com/dictio...online-grammar.... http://spellcheckplus.com/ http://www.grammarly.com/?q=grammar&...FQa0bwodgg1yFw -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Robert Macy" wrote in message .... ...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation? everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply. anybody know of something very, very effective? thank you for these URLs. the first one had four sites, each were spell check only, the last was 30 days or $49 the second one was spell check only the third was spell check only until I asked for grammar then it said it won't work with my browzer! *kept wanting me to run WinXP and later programs. *That's crazy! this is a text monitoring program, why would anyone need higher than DOS!!! Odd it is so difficult to find out if punctuation is correct. Interesting. Unfortunately, the audience is not likely to be that group that gapped in education. As in, "Why Johnny Can't Read," now in VHS format! |
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slightly OT, but anyone know...
On Jun 4, 3:38*pm, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
wrote: If you want a fourth opinion, ask Peter T. Daniels - looks like: Peter T. Daniels - thanks but the email address is munged as it comes in here. |
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slightly OT, but anyone know...
But he only has one opinion.
Terry Farrell "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message ... If you want a fourth opinion, ask Peter T. Daniels - -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... On Jun 3, 6:31 pm, "bj" wrote: "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... ...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation? everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply. anybody know of something very, very effective? Send a copy to your old high school English teacher! bj LOL! Delay is tooooo long, plus when I ran it by 3 different English 'experts' I got three different answers!!! |
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slightly OT, but anyone know...
On Jun 4, 3:59*pm, "Terry Farrell" wrote:
But he only has one opinion. Terry Farrell Yes, but if that opinion agrees with mine, I'll consider him a wise source of enlightenment |
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slightly OT, but anyone know...
You will find him in the docmanagement newsgroup.
-- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... On Jun 4, 3:38 pm, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: If you want a fourth opinion, ask Peter T. Daniels - looks like: Peter T. Daniels - thanks but the email address is munged as it comes in here. |
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slightly OT, but anyone know...
Good luck.
Terry "Robert Macy" wrote in message ... On Jun 4, 3:59 pm, "Terry Farrell" wrote: But he only has one opinion. Terry Farrell Yes, but if that opinion agrees with mine, I'll consider him a wise source of enlightenment |
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