Tag Archives: Microsoft Grammar Checker

What are your thoughts on the Microsoft grammar and style checker?

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Viktorija Kostadinova

In the past two years, we’ve been publishing a series of interactive features in the journal English Today as a way to engage more readers in issues of interest to our research project. (Past features can also be found on … Continue reading →

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Fragment (consider revising)

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Viktorija Kostadinova

We’ve all been there. You are writing (what you think is) a perfectly good sentence in a Word document when, suddenly, the MS Word grammar checker tells you that you should consider revising the ‘fragment’, because something is wrong. Very … Continue reading →

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On Microsoft’s Grammar Checker again

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Ingrid Tieken

A few years ago, Robin Straaijer wrote a blog post about Microsoft’s Grammar Checker. He had been inspired to write the post after hearing Anne Curzan speak on the topic during the ICEHL-17 conference at Zürich in 2012. Reading Anne Curzan’s … Continue reading →