Check your grammar checking software
This is a text document, full of errors, designed to test the capabilities of
grammar checking programs of which there are a multitude of different versions such as Autocrit, Ginger, Grammarly, HemmingwayApp, PerfectIt,
ProWritingAid and other programs available as both plugins for MS Word and as web applications to be used by
pasting the text into a web page so that you can check the grammar of your
documents and find examples for things like passive phrase use and run-on-sentences I suggest you copy and past this entire text into your grammar checking software to see how it performs.
Their are off cause many words witch can bee used wrongly.
Does the grammar checker draw attention to this?
“Their over they’re with there coffee. Of course that should
have been “they’re over there with their coffee". But does it spot the missing
speech mark and comma? Dose it suggest the ‘Of course’ could have been
eliminated and started the sentence with ‘That’?
Their have now been three paragraphs starting with the word ‘Their’.
Each uses ‘their’ instead of ‘there’. Does the grammar checker program detect
these as repetition? If you fix the problem in one case does it no longer see
the repetition? If you fix all the errors does it re-appear?
What what about typos and repeated words? Doed hte gramar
cheker cop welll width then? Word spelling and grammar checker auto-corrects
every word in the last sentance and fixes the ‘a’ in ‘sentance.’
Hears a classic mistake
which often appears on Facebook. Does the grammar checker find the four
errors? I would expect it to find no more than three but an AI grammar checker or
a skilled editor would find four.
70% percent of the
the public cant
spot the mistake
in this text.
the public cant
spot the mistake
in this text.
Underground would you find a led mime?
On a beech would you find a see shell?
Does the grammar checking software draw attention to idiom
which may not be understood in a different country? For example, ‘pavement’
means different things in the US and UK. In the US you drive on the pavement
but walk on the sidewalk. In the UK you drive on a road but walk on the
pavement. There are many other examples of words or phrases with different
meaning. In one bestseller book an English author has an American using
the word ‘tarmac’ which an American would understand as ‘blacktop.’
Does the grammar checking software spot plagiarism? It was
the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was
the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of
incredulity. Does the grammar checking software detect plagiarism? (And repetition?)
Does the grammar checking software check for example missing
punctuation such as commas semicolons apostrophe’s used incorrectly question
marks over use of exclamation marks!!!! What about punctuation that was a
question. Did the software find a missing question mark or semicolon? If; for
example, a semicolon is used instead of a comma. does it draw attention, to
non-capitalization and comma,s in the wrong place? Should it detect the Oxford
comma and the none use of it? What about it’s ability to correct ‘its’ and
“should punctuation fit inside or outside parenthesis”?