Grammar Checkers

I am wonder how many people use grammar checkers when they write? We have started relying on spell checkers as second nature so I thought about grammar checkers.

In playing around I have looked at Grammarly but it is really designed for either Word or a plain text document. I use Libreoffice so I have just recently added Languagetools in to see how this works.


Ray

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Originally Posted by RKissane

I am wonder...Ray

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Looks like it may have come in handy here, Ray! (sorry)

Microsoft Word has a grammar checker.

Me reefuse too use spel chekers AND gramer chekers to, They r for loosers, Stay in skool kids and you want nead them.

My reaction to grammar checkers is "Nope, I am right".

pretty useless when writing dialog.. dialog rarely follows gramatical grammatical rules... spell checkers on the other hand... :)

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

Microsoft Word has a grammar checker.

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yes and it is useful to me if I remember to use it. I kinda got out of the habit when I started using notepad.

Never understood a noun from an adjective, never ever understood grammar so a grammar checker would be completely lost on me. But that's Secondary School Education for you.

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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Never understood a noun from an adjective, never ever understood grammar so a grammar checker would be completely lost on me. But that's Secondary School Education for you.

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Maybe Egg but for some of us it can be a useful tool.

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Originally Posted by Ross Macintosh

Me reefuse too use spel chekers AND gramer chekers to, They r for loosers, Stay in skool kids and you want nead them.

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Ha,ha. In my old age or perhaps from by brain damage when it comes to typing I am all thumbs. And for me at least it has become a serious issue.

Oh bye the way, When I can find the time I am changing the graphic so my question to you becomes clearer.

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Originally Posted by gracehjs

My reaction to grammar checkers is "Nope, I am right".

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I used to be but no longer.

I think there are times when grammar checkers give bad advice, especially in some technical writing applications. Spell checkers on the other hand are my best friend, I rely on them way to much but I was never a great speller and I am always afraid of making a mistake.

Ray

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Originally Posted by wizard509

Oh bye the way,

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i wonder if any spell-checker or grammar checker would have spotted that one...?

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Originally Posted by Big Frank

i wonder

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I wonder: O, buy the whey.

Acorn

zakly :)

I am using Grammarly, it is somehow helpful to avoid error when creating an important email.

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Originally Posted by 1alexie

I am using Grammarly, it is somehow helpful to avoid error when creating an important email.

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Welcome to TalkGraphics.

Others might be interested in what Grammarly might also do: https://www.cyberscoop.com/bug-in-gr...r-ever-writes/.

Acorn

As a sometime teacher of English may I offer my thoughts/experience? The more irregularities a language has the less useful a grammar checker is likely to be, and English is very irregular. Microsoft's grammar checker is a good example. Quite often all it can do is to point out a potential error for the user to double check elsewhere or highlights something that doesn't follow grammar rules but has to be learnt.

Homonyms and homophones are examples of the latter. Some years ago with three colleagues I participated in the design and construction of an MS Word add-in that would help people choose the correct homonym. It was quite elegant, allowed users to select three levels of frequency and difficulty eg the simplest level highlighted every 'where', 'wear' and 'we're', good for the student, but drove literate users to distraction. It was smart enough to distinguish between double homonyms eg read-read and read-red and read-reed. The add in worked by giving example sentences using each meaning so the user could select the one they thought correct - and that's the problem, if the problem doesn't follow rules then it remains a choice.

Add in the complications caused by punctuation and you can see how a grammar checker can only be a guide.

On the other nhand, as others have written, spell checking is a very useful tool, even if it only corrects bad typing not bad spelling!

Philip

Me no speak english no speak LOL

Assuming your spellchecker has 'lol' in it your message proves my last point precisely! :D

Your absolutely correct Flip. ;)

I think when it comes to any software or program which we used to check grammars errors, it has it,s own limitations, as they checks or confirms only those words that exist in their own software/dictionary. Even sometime we spell right they still shows error.

Well observed Garrysmith.

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Originally Posted by flip

As a sometime teacher of English may I offer my thoughts/experience? The more irregularities a language has the less useful a grammar checker is likely to be, and English is very irregular. Microsoft's grammar checker is a good example. Quite often all it can do is to point out a potential error for the user to double check elsewhere or highlights something that doesn't follow grammar rules but has to be learnt.

Homonyms and homophones are examples of the latter. Some years ago with three colleagues I participated in the design and construction of an MS Word add-in that would help people choose the correct homonym. It was quite elegant, allowed users to select three levels of frequency and difficulty eg the simplest level highlighted every 'where', 'wear' and 'we're', good for the student, but drove literate users to distraction. It was smart enough to distinguish between double homonyms eg read-read and read-red and read-reed. The add in worked by giving example sentences using each meaning so the user could select the one they thought correct - and that's the problem, if the problem doesn't follow rules then it remains a choice.

Add in the complications caused by punctuation and you can see how a grammar checker can only be a guide.

On the other nhand, as others have written, spell checking is a very useful tool, even if it only corrects bad typing not bad spelling!

Philip

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Sorry to interrupt you, as it might also lead us to rely on grammar checker, we might not increasing or developing our written English skills.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

Your absolutely correct Flip. ;)

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I know I'm way behind timewise on this, but that should be "You're" Gary.
Sorry, but given the subject I couldn't resist!

Instead of software, I'm using various memory techniques.

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Instead of software, I'm using various memory techniques.

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Which I am sure you will share with us.

I also would like to try such a technique. I feel that my brain works bad