(1) The quality of these voices matter.
As we pointed out, the correct verb is matters.
It was a relatively simple sentence, yet the mistake went undetected.
Though I have never used any grammar checker for my writings, except perhaps to check for spelling, my interest was nevertheless piqued. How accurate or reliable is the grammar program? I wondered, and decided to test it out.
Microsoft Word 2010 Spelling & Grammar: English (United Kingdom) |
For anyone not familiar with Microsoft Word's grammar checker, the green squiggly line indicates a possible grammar mistake. The corrections in red were added by me after the check was completed, using a separate graphical software so as not to confuse the grammar checker.
Though it was only a limited test with contrived sentences, the result has nonetheless revealed the vast inadequacy of the grammar program. Many of the straightforward, non-tricky error cases passed the check without a single complaint. For being such a nag over perfectly fine structures such as passive and cleft constructions, it cannot even reliably handle rudimentary mistakes.
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