I think I will phone my grammar about this

Having experienced a number of issues recently regarding grammar I decided to look on the interwebtubenets for a suitable program. Word is famous for its abject failure of a spelling and grammar checker. i.e., it does not work as it should do.

The lack of proofreading hits even mainstream sites. Yahoo egregious mistakes all of the time. Here is one from today. 2nd paragraph, 2nd sentence.

I found this site. Somehow they will need to convince me a lot more than by their 'Dear User' introduction on their front page.
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Dear User,

Our grammar software and spell check software accurately grammar checks and suggestions grammar corrections. Grammar check anywhere works in all your current programs you love and use everyday. Our grammar checker is essential to proof and correct the grammar mistakes of documents, emails, and presentations.

To see how effective is our grammar check, download the free grammar check trial, then go to the NYTimes.Com (NY Times Newspaper) web site, copy and paste an article from there. Paste it to our grammar check. Our grammar check software will find grammar mistakes even in a published NYTimes.Com articles.

Spell Checking & Grammar Checking Happens Just As If The Original Application Had Spelling Check And Grammar Software Built In

This means that whenever you are ready to spelling check and grammar check, you simply press the F11 hotkey on your keyboard. Our grammar checker takes it from there and integrates with your application such as word, outlook express & web forms.

Our Grammar Software Has Accurate
Grammar Checking And Spell Checking

Accurate grammar check as can be done by computer today. The following is the grammar options screen:

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And, elsewhere on the site:

"We also provide a slide-bar allowing you to indicate how aggressive do you want it to be in deciding something is a grammar mistake or not."

"While having your work professionally proof read for grammar by an actual human proof reader is the best way to get your documents neat. However, a human proof reader is expansive."

"This includes, but not limited, to the following applications:"

"Our spell check & grammar checking also comes with thesaurus."

"To grammar checking in Outlook or WordPad for instance, just press the f11 key on your keyboard."

AND THIS WONDERFUL BLOCK OF TEXT...

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Grammar checking by computer is a software program that scans your text for grammar mistakes.

This is done with a sophisticated text search engine that can differentiate between verbs, nouns, adjectives and etc.

This text search engine looks for similar sentences by sentence structure. And looks for specific text that is usually involved in grammar mistakes.

For example, after "to" always comes a verb. Therefore, if the search engine finds the word "to" and after a noun, such as "to car". It knows that probably there is a grammar mistake in this sentence.

In the same way, the grammar check is done by considering thousands of specific grammar mistakes, and making general rules for them to be picked up by our sophisticated text search engine that is aware of verbs, nouns, and general sentence structure.

This technique while it works well, sometimes can fail and mark something as a grammar mistake when it is not a grammar mistake. But with common sense you can figure out pretty easily if the grammar mistake is real or not.

When checking out our grammar checker, please make sure that you do not make up some weird grammar mistakes to see if our grammar check will catch. Our grammar check is built to find real world mistakes and not made up ones. It is therefore best for you to pickup some real text you wrote and check it against Grammar Check Anywhere."

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The last one is a real killer.... it only checks for mistakes you deliberately make... apparently.

There is NO hope!