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shouldn't Grammar Checking in Word 2003 catch this word transposition

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John Gibb - 16 Nov 2005 21:17 GMT
Hi,

I was hoping that Word 2003's Grammar Checking would catch this error:

   You will a find hierarchical menu.

and propose correcting it to:

   You will find a hierarchical menu.

But it did not.

Any suggestions?

And I seem to recall that Word used to let me set the type of document being written or checked (scientific, informal, etc.). but I can't find that setting.

Any suggestions?

thanks,

-john
Jezebel - 16 Nov 2005 21:56 GMT
That's really a pretty subtle syntactic flaw, recognisable only by reference
to the semantics. "Will" can be a transitive verb, and "find" can be a noun;
to a human they are an unlikely combination, but a grammar checker has no
notion of meaning, only structure.

"in the diamond exploration business you will hear about a loss more often
than you will a find..."

The settings for the grammar checker are on Tools > Options > Spelling and
Grammar. The choice of document type is no longer provided, I think.

Hi,

I was hoping that Word 2003's Grammar Checking would catch this error:

   You will a find hierarchical menu.

and propose correcting it to:

   You will find a hierarchical menu.

But it did not.

Any suggestions?

And I seem to recall that Word used to let me set the type of document being
written or checked (scientific, informal, etc.). but I can't find that
setting.

Any suggestions?

thanks,

-john
 
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