The Grammar checker fails to notice when I have missed out the period at the
end of a sentence. Can anyone tell me why this might be?

Without the period, how can it tell where the end of the sentence is?

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"BWRITER" wrote in message
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The Grammar checker fails to notice when I have missed out the period at
the
end of a sentence. Can anyone tell me why this might be?

Simple, Suzanne. A sentence will always begin with a capital letter and be
preceded by a space. Therefore, I would expect the grammar checker to flag up
an error when it found a capital letter in the middle of what, ostensibly, is
one complete sentence.

Word '97 used to pick up these errors for me so, it can work.

Actually, while formulating this reply, I see a glimmer of light. Perhaps I
have told Word to allow isolated capital letters. I will now check this out.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Without the period, how can it tell where the end of the sentence is?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"BWRITER" wrote in message
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The Grammar checker fails to notice when I have missed out the period at
the
end of a sentence. Can anyone tell me why this might be?

I would hope Word would allow isolated capital letters. How else would you
have any proper nouns?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"BWRITER" wrote in message
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Simple, Suzanne. A sentence will always begin with a capital letter and be
preceded by a space. Therefore, I would expect the grammar checker to flag
up
an error when it found a capital letter in the middle of what, ostensibly,
is
one complete sentence.

Word '97 used to pick up these errors for me so, it can work.

Actually, while formulating this reply, I see a glimmer of light. Perhaps
I
have told Word to allow isolated capital letters. I will now check this
out.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Without the period, how can it tell where the end of the sentence is?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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newsgroup so
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"BWRITER" wrote in message
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The Grammar checker fails to notice when I have missed out the period
at
the
end of a sentence. Can anyone tell me why this might be?

Actually, presumably grammar checker should flag the two sentences together
as a run-on? Does it not?


On 4/7/05 3:31 AM, "BWRITER" wrote:

Simple, Suzanne. A sentence will always begin with a capital letter and be
preceded by a space. Therefore, I would expect the grammar checker to flag up
an error when it found a capital letter in the middle of what, ostensibly, is
one complete sentence.

Word '97 used to pick up these errors for me so, it can work.

Actually, while formulating this reply, I see a glimmer of light. Perhaps I
have told Word to allow isolated capital letters. I will now check this out.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Without the period, how can it tell where the end of the sentence is?

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"BWRITER" wrote in message
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The Grammar checker fails to notice when I have missed out the period at
the
end of a sentence. Can anyone tell me why this might be?

That was my thought, too, but since I don't use the grammar checker at all
and have gotten the impression it is useless...

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Daiya Mitchell" wrote in message
.. .
Actually, presumably grammar checker should flag the two sentences
together
as a run-on? Does it not?


On 4/7/05 3:31 AM, "BWRITER" wrote:

Simple, Suzanne. A sentence will always begin with a capital letter and
be
preceded by a space. Therefore, I would expect the grammar checker to
flag up
an error when it found a capital letter in the middle of what,
ostensibly, is
one complete sentence.

Word '97 used to pick up these errors for me so, it can work.

Actually, while formulating this reply, I see a glimmer of light.
Perhaps I
have told Word to allow isolated capital letters. I will now check this
out.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Without the period, how can it tell where the end of the sentence is?

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"BWRITER" wrote in message
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The Grammar checker fails to notice when I have missed out the period
at
the
end of a sentence. Can anyone tell me why this might be?