slightly OT, but anyone know...

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....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?
 
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
Robert Macy said:
...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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Send a copy to your old high school English teacher!
bj
 
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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
Robert Macy said:
...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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Send a copy to your old high school English teacher!
bj
 
That would be tough for some of us. I don't think the dearly departed read
their mail.
 
Google turned up the following:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/dictionary-articles/free-online-grammar...

http://spellcheckplus.com/

http://www.grammarly.com/?q=grammar&gclid=CLWSs9SThaICFQa0bwodgg1yFw

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

Delay is tooooo long, plus when I ran it by 3 different English
'experts' I got three different answers!!!
 
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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If you want a fourth opinion, ask Peter T. Daniels - (e-mail address removed)

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
 
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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Interesting. Unfortunately, the audience is not likely to be that
group that gapped in education.

As in, "Why Johnny Can't Read," now in VHS format!
 
If you want a fourth opinion, ask Peter T. Daniels - (e-mail address removed)
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looks like: Peter T. Daniels - (e-mail address removed)


thanks but the email address is munged as it comes in here.
 
But he only has one opinion.

Terry Farrell

If you want a fourth opinion, ask Peter T. Daniels - (e-mail address removed)

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You will find him in the docmanagement newsgroup.

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