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Old June 3rd, 2010, 10:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Robert Macy[_2_]
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Default slightly OT, but anyone know...

....of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for
grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation?

everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or
worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply.

anybody know of something very, very effective?
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Old June 4th, 2010, 01:19 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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Default slightly OT, but anyone know...

Google turned up the following:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/dictio...e-grammar.html

http://spellcheckplus.com/

http://www.grammarly.com/?q=grammar&...FQa0bwodgg1yFw



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"Robert Macy" wrote in message
...
...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for
grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation?

everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or
worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply.

anybody know of something very, very effective?


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Old June 4th, 2010, 02:31 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
bj[_4_]
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Default slightly OT, but anyone know...

"Robert Macy" wrote in message
...
...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for
grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation?

everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or
worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply.

anybody know of something very, very effective?


Send a copy to your old high school English teacher!
bj


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Old June 4th, 2010, 09:14 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Terry Farrell
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Default slightly OT, but anyone know...

The problem with that is Ms. Lunt (Gertrude) would probably come round to my house to rap me over the knuckles with a ruler and say, 'write out 1,000 lines, 'I taught you correct grammar at school''.

Terry Farrell
"bj" wrote in message ...
"Robert Macy" wrote in message
...
...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for
grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation?

everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or
worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply.

anybody know of something very, very effective?


Send a copy to your old high school English teacher!
bj


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Old June 4th, 2010, 10:44 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Stefan Blom[_3_]
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:-)

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"Terry Farrell" wrote in message ...
The problem with that is Ms. Lunt (Gertrude) would probably come round to my house to rap me over the knuckles with a ruler and say, 'write out 1,000 lines, 'I taught you correct grammar at school''.

Terry Farrell
"bj" wrote in message ...
"Robert Macy" wrote in message
...
...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for
grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation?

everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or
worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply.

anybody know of something very, very effective?


Send a copy to your old high school English teacher!
bj


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Old June 4th, 2010, 11:54 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
JoAnn Paules [MVP]
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Default slightly OT, but anyone know...

That would be tough for some of us. I don't think the dearly departed read
their mail.

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"bj" wrote in message
...
"Robert Macy" wrote in message
...
...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for
grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation?

everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or
worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply.

anybody know of something very, very effective?


Send a copy to your old high school English teacher!
bj




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Old June 4th, 2010, 05:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Robert Macy[_2_]
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Default slightly OT, but anyone know...

On Jun 3, 5:19*pm, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
wrote:
Google turned up the following:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/dictio...online-grammar...

http://spellcheckplus.com/

http://www.grammarly.com/?q=grammar&...FQa0bwodgg1yFw

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Robert Macy" wrote in message

...



...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for
grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation?


everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or
worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply.


anybody know of something very, very effective?


thank you for these URLs.

the first one had four sites, each were spell check only, the last was
30 days or $49

the second one was spell check only

the third was spell check only until I asked for grammar then it said
it won't work with my browzer! kept wanting me to run WinXP and later
programs. That's crazy! this is a text monitoring program, why would
anyone need higher than DOS!!!

Odd it is so difficult to find out if punctuation is correct.

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Old June 4th, 2010, 05:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Robert Macy[_2_]
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Default slightly OT, but anyone know...

On Jun 3, 6:31*pm, "bj" wrote:
"Robert Macy" wrote in message

...

...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for
grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation?


everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or
worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply.


anybody know of something very, very effective?


Send a copy to your old high school English teacher!
bj


LOL!

Delay is tooooo long, plus when I ran it by 3 different English
'experts' I got three different answers!!!
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Old June 4th, 2010, 11:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.newusers
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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Default slightly OT, but anyone know...

While when I went to school 50 odd years ago, learning grammar was a major
component of English lessons, more recently in schools here, it is no longer
taught so there is a whole generation that would not know if something was
grammatically incorrect, or at least what was grammatically incorrect about
some text.

Fortunately, steps are now being taken to re-introduce the teaching of
grammar in schools. However none of the current crop of teachers were
taught it themselves, so it is going to be a struggle.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Robert Macy" wrote in message
...
On Jun 3, 5:19 pm, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP"
wrote:
Google turned up the following:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/dictio...online-grammar...

http://spellcheckplus.com/

http://www.grammarly.com/?q=grammar&...FQa0bwodgg1yFw

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Robert Macy" wrote in message

...



...of an online website to check a sentence, or phrase, for
grammatical accuracy and correct punctuation?


everything I've found so far wants money for a book or lessons, or
worse wants to give me pragmatic rules which rarely apply.


anybody know of something very, very effective?


thank you for these URLs.

the first one had four sites, each were spell check only, the last was
30 days or $49

the second one was spell check only

the third was spell check only until I asked for grammar then it said
it won't work with my browzer! kept wanting me to run WinXP and later
programs. That's crazy! this is a text monitoring program, why would
anyone need higher than DOS!!!

Odd it is so difficult to find out if punctuation is correct.

 




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