Grammar Checker is Wrong!

[grammar pedant]

Outlook has just tried to correct me twice with incorrect grammar:

* I used the word "it's" as a correct abbreviation for "it is", but Outlook
tried to make me used "its", which means "belonging to it".

* I correctly referred to something being given to "John and me", and
Outlook tried to make it given "to John and I" (a very common error amongst
middle class Brits and just about all Americans and Australians). If you
don't understand the difference between the grammatical cases, just take away
the "John and.." and you will get it right.

I know that grammar is slipping globally, but what chance have we if
computers are 'correcting' people wrongly!

R Johnston

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[F.H. Muffman]

Outlook has just tried to correct me twice with incorrect grammar:

* I used the word "it's" as a correct abbreviation for "it is", but
Outlook tried to make me used "its", which means "belonging to it".

* I correctly referred to something being given to "John and me", and
Outlook tried to make it given "to John and I" (a very common error
amongst middle class Brits and just about all Americans and
Australians). If you don't understand the difference between the
grammatical cases, just take away the "John and.." and you will get
it right.

I know that grammar is slipping globally, but what chance have we if
computers are 'correcting' people wrongly!

a) Since the grammar functionality comes from Word, you might be better off
pointing out these mistakes there (not to mention saying what version of
Word you're using).

b) I can't reproduce this in word 2k3 or 2k7.
"Bill gave the gift to John and me." doesn 't want to change the me to I
and, without any example for the first one, I tried "I tried to fix the
problem, but it's too hard." and it did not prompt for a grammar error. I
had hoped that putting it close enough to the subject would make it unsure
as to whether or not it should be possessive instead of contracted, but,
didn't seem to fail.