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Definite/indefinite articles?
I tend to write with too much familiarity and the expectation that my reader
knows what I'm talking about before I've actually explained it! An easiest indicator of this is that I often refer to a noun with a definite article ("the thing") before I've described what "a thing" even is. I can't be informal about this because I'm writing legal documents that require a very specific form. So... I'd really like word to help me find the problem phrases. I'm using Word 2007 under Windows 7, both fully updated. Is there already a check built into the grammar check that will look at noun phrases? I see the "noun phrases" check box in the grammar rules, but it's not clear to me what it's really checking. And I specifically need help in this one specific area... I have no doubt that I create nasty long noun phrases, but have no desire to break them up since that's required by my audience. How about plug-ins? Are there plug-ins already that can help me? I'm considering using "rentacoder.com" to write a plugin for this. Can someone tell me if this idea is even possible in Word (or in any other tool system): I'd like to have a tool highlight all my definite articled noun phrases and attempt to find the indefinite articled noun phrases that they stem from. The visual interface for this would get insanely complex very quickly. So the thought would be that it would highlight the specific indefinite articled phrase when I moused over the definite articled phrase. It would also highlight (in another color) the phrases that it could not find indefinite articled phrases for... thanks for looking at this! Rudy |
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