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Fix Word's handling of collective nouns "staff" and "crowd"
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Word 2000 seems to handle it correctly, though. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Bill Not fixable. It is still present in W2007 too. Staff (and crowd) are collective nouns, so 'the staff is' and 'the crowd is' are both correct. The grammar checker happily accepts 'is or are' with crowd - but with staff, the checker accepts neither as correct. Both the handling of crowd and staff are inconsistent and daft. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "Bill Davy" wrote in message ... In fact, the grammar checker seems to have green twiddlyitis with the following: The staff are happy. "staff are" have twiddles (suggests "staff is" but see below) Staff are happy. "staff are" have twiddles (suggests "Staff is" or "Staffs are" Staff is happy. "Staff" has twiddles (suggests "staffs"). The staff is happy. "Staff" has twiddles (suggests "staffs" but see above). A staff is happy. "A staff" has twiddles (suggests "Staffs") Is it fixable? How? Word 2003 SP2. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Fix Word's handling of collective nouns "staff" and "crowd"
The real problem is that the staff can't possibly be happy if they're using
the grammar checker. ;-) If there's such a thing as artificial intelligence, then the grammar checker is an example of artificial ignorance. It gives me incorrect and bad advice much more often than it gives good/correct advice, so I keep it turned off. It applies rigid rules and doesn't seem to be able consistently to distinguish verbs and nouns in context. Until it can, it's a novelty that is only occasionally correct. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Bill Davy" wrote in message ... In fact, the grammar checker seems to have green twiddlyitis with the following: The staff are happy. "staff are" have twiddles (suggests "staff is" but see below) |
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