Showed an article to 5 grammar software, all different results

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this is quite amusing to me as a non native speaker

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PLANNING FOR THE PERFECT ROMANTIC HONEYMOON

Making arrangements for a wedding is sufficiently nerve racking. While making arrangements for a honeymoon is supposed to be a delight. So long as both the bride and groom are of the same mind about the location and the happenings, this fraction of the new life journey should be a snap to plan. Making plans for the ideal romantic honeymoon should take an account of things that are pleasing to both.

In general, a pleasant and romantic honeymoon can take place anyplace where the honeymooners can get some valuable time together with a lot of time and space alone. Very few people want a lot of others all over for the duration of their exceptional unique trip together. The holiday, whether it is for a weekend or a complete month, is intended to help out both of you to ease in to married life and make long lasting recollections. It is supposed to be enjoyable, comforting and romantic.

Prior to setting up a trip, it is a good thought for both the groom and the bride to sit down and talk about alternatives. Be sure to select a place jointly - one that is really pleasing to both. Even though it is expected that a lot of time will be spent in the room, attempting to go out should be an enjoyable decision that presents lots of romantic potentials, too.

Here are some guidelines on places to go:

* Beach destinations. For many, there are a few things more romantic such as gazing at a sunset on a perfect beach while sipping on drinks with little paper straws and looking at palm trees sway in a warm breeze. If this is pleasing, then places such as Hawaii, South Carolina, California, Florida, and even the islands of the Caribbean and some European destinations and so on are all good choices. They all present their own unique appeal and other potentials for romance and exciting activity.

* Europe. If staying in a historic city maybe surrounded by the walls of a romantic, medieval fortress seems like a dream come true, then countries such as Germany, England, Scotland and Ireland might be thought about. Tourism possibilities are hard to believe in any of the destinations and lodging can really be as expensive or as standard as a couple's budget asks for.

* Mountains. There are few places more romantic than isolated mountain chalets. Getting back to nature presents some hard to believe sights, which turns out to be very romantic and the seclusion cannot be beat. Places to think about for this type of trip comprise of anyplace in the Rockies, the Smokey Mountains, New York, Pennsylvania, Canada and Europe. Again lodging can comprise of expensive chalets or more rural log cabins and maybe even tent camping. No matter what, anything both the groom and the bride consider goes.

* Ocean cruises. When it comes to gorgeous sights and chic dealings, cruises are inevitable. With lots to do and see, there is ample to please you outside of that stateroom.

It is immaterial what you do or where you go on your honeymoon, just keep in mind that the tour is for both the bride and groom. It is a time to kick back, loosen up and get to be acquainted with each other even better before the day-to-day routine of married life sets in. Just make sure that the trip is pleasing to you both - make it enjoyable and unwind. It is the bits and pieces that lifetime recollections are made of.

A romantic honeymoon can be economical, reasonably priced or exaggerated. As long as the two most important people are having an enjoyable time, that is all that matters. Forget about the constant worry of planning behind at the wedding and just take pleasure in the honeymoon.
the tools:

polishmywriting.com
grammarly.com
spellcheckplus.com
Word 2007
white smoke

all give me different results/grammatical error/suggestions

lol ... are they all right? are they all wrong?
#article #grammar #results #showed #software
  • Profile picture of the author wenzel777
    That's why we'll never be out of business. You can't tame words w/ a spell-checker or a program. Run. Run fast...preferably to Webster's, AP/MLA style guides and a handful of classic novels. Don't forget your cluttered desk & post-it notes.
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    • Profile picture of the author virginiad
      Or find a native speaker to review your work.
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  • Profile picture of the author Oxbloom
    Fractured English (of the sort of non-native speaker will write) is notoriously difficult for software to analyze. The problems are often not of a simple "this is spelled wrong," or "the usage here is less than perfect," sort.

    Instead, what you get is word salad. Properly spelled, correctly used words that are still so illogically jumbled that you need an active, puzzle-solving intelligence involved to work out the intended meaning. Whole sentences or paragraphs have to be restructured to make proper sense.

    That's what's happening here. All the automated sources are trying to pinpoint the mistakes in simple fashion, when in reality, the problems aren't of the simple kind. They are structural and logical problems affecting sentence logic and coherence.

    That's WAY beyond the abilities of a simple push-button program to fix.
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  • Profile picture of the author madison_avenue
    Have you tried Ginger software? It is quite powerful.

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    Online Grammar Checker | Revolutionary Grammar Checker Tool | Ginger Software
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    I can see some things in your wording that will trigger word to make SUGGESTIONS! NOT to indicate errors, but simply to say things like "Maybe you don't want to use the passive voice here", etc...

    There are a LOT of ways, to write something, that are correct. Software just can't handle them all. So it IS possible for several checkers to give you different responses and ALL be correct. That said, the software is STILL not that great, and can't see the context of the document, so there are things it WILL miss.

    Steve
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