Fire the persom who wrote your grammer and syntax program for Word

[walterreinhaer]

I have been using Microsoft Word now for some time from Office 2000 to
Microsoft Office 2003 and I have never seen a program with so many
grammatical and snytaxial errors as I have with Word. For example if I type
in your table is ready, word underlines it and wants to change it to you're.
If I type in you're going to be late for your appointment, again I get
improper grammatical suggestions, in this case it would be you're underlined
and want to be changed to your. Another example is there are ten duchs in
that row, the program again wants to change it to there IS ten ducks in that
row. I'm not sure if the person who is responsible for this progam ever went
to school or not but I know for certain that I would be looking at his or her
work very closely if this is an example of their grammatical and syntaxal
skills.

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[Charles Kenyon]

You are right that it is wrong about as often as it is right. Can you write
a better program? Chances are that if you do MS will buy you out.
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, first of all, the word is "syntactical." But if your grammar is so
much better than Word's, why are you using the grammar checker? I never do.



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I have been using Microsoft Word now for some time from Office 2000 to
Microsoft Office 2003 and I have never seen a program with so many
grammatical and snytaxial errors as I have with Word. For example if I type
in your table is ready, word underlines it and wants to change it to you're.
If I type in you're going to be late for your appointment, again I get
improper grammatical suggestions, in this case it would be you're underlined
and want to be changed to your. Another example is there are ten duchs in
that row, the program again wants to change it to there IS ten ducks in that
row. I'm not sure if the person who is responsible for this progam ever went
to school or not but I know for certain that I would be looking at his or her
work very closely if this is an example of their grammatical and syntaxal
skills.

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Walter,

What language version of Word 2003 are you using
and what is the language setting for the text
being checked?

When I ran the grammar checker on the text of your
message with English-U.S. as the default it did not
make any of the suggestions you mentioned.

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I have been using Microsoft Word now for some time from Office 2000 to
Microsoft Office 2003 and I have never seen a program with so many
grammatical and snytaxial errors as I have with Word. For example if I type
in your table is ready, word underlines it and wants to change it to you're.
If I type in you're going to be late for your appointment, again I get
improper grammatical suggestions, in this case it would be you're underlined
and want to be changed to your. Another example is there are ten duchs in
that row, the program again wants to change it to there IS ten ducks in that
row. I'm not sure if the person who is responsible for this progam ever went
to school or not but I know for certain that I would be looking at his or her
work very closely if this is an example of their grammatical and syntaxal
skills. >>

 

[TF]

Walter

Microsoft don't write the spelling and grammar checkers: they licence it
from a third party. I agree that as well as picking up grammar errors that
aren't, it also some wonderful conflicts between spelling and grammar (try
Northeast or is it northeast or north-east or North-East!)!

However, it is better than no checkers at all. Because you know that you
were correct in typing 'your', at least it alerts you if you had made a
mistake. Confusion between you're and your is an extremely common mistake,
so it alerts the user everytime (though why it is incapable of determining
its correct use is a good question). Another example is 'staff' (as in
company staff): see how confused it gets over that! Another example of why
over-enthusiastic checking is better then none: you haven't got the spell
checker enabled in your news client - see how many spelling mistakes you can
spot?! <VBG>



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:I have been using Microsoft Word now for some time from Office 2000 to
: Microsoft Office 2003 and I have never seen a program with so many
: grammatical and snytaxial errors as I have with Word. For example if I
type
: in your table is ready, word underlines it and wants to change it to
you're.
: If I type in you're going to be late for your appointment, again I get
: improper grammatical suggestions, in this case it would be you're
underlined
: and want to be changed to your. Another example is there are ten duchs in
: that row, the program again wants to change it to there IS ten ducks in
that
: row. I'm not sure if the person who is responsible for this progam ever
went
: to school or not but I know for certain that I would be looking at his or
her
: work very closely if this is an example of their grammatical and syntaxal
: skills.
:
: ----------------
: This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
: suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
: Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
this
: link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
: click "I Agree" in the message pane.
:
:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...3&dg=microsoft.public.word.application.errors

 

[Beth Melton]

I don't encounter the grammatical suggestions you describe in Word
97 - Word 2003.

Now, if I set the Grammar checker to a Formal writing style which
checks for contractions then "you're" is flagged as a grammatical
error but the suggestion is to change it to "you are".

Personally I view the Spelling and Grammar tools as means of drawing
questionable words to my attention. It's still up to me to apply what
I learned in school and make the corrections as needed. IOW, you can't
rely on a program to do everything for you.

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