Does anyone know of any online grammar checking tools?

Martin Luxton

15 years ago

MS Office 2007 has a grammar checking tool which you can 'train' by adding unusual words/names to its memory.

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madison_avenue

15 years ago

Thanks for the info guys! I may get MS Office 2007 based on your comments, I will check it out. At the moment, I'm using an older version of MS Office which doesn't include this tool, do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks for your help.

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KirkMcD

15 years ago

Originally Posted by madison_avenue

At the moment, I'm using an older version of MS Office which doesn't include this tool,

MS Office/Word has included a Grammer Checker since at least 1995.
Unless you are using a DOS version, the grammer checker is there.

Originally grammer checking was seperate from the spell checking though, now they are combined.

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madison_avenue

15 years ago

Originally Posted by KirkMcD

MS Office/Word has included a Grammer Checker since at least 1995.
Unless you are using a DOS version, the grammer checker is there.

Originally grammer checking was seperate from the spell checking though, now they are combined.

Hey Kirk,

Thanks for the shout out, I am running Microsoft Office 2003, of all things!
It does have a grammar checker included, I had thought the software was too decrepit to have it!

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tht222

15 years ago

This is the best tool you'll find online:
spellcheckplus dot com (sorry, can't post links yet)

If you type your articles in Word and then run it through this online checker, you are golden - you will get some false positives, but it is very good for catching common mistakes that no other tool (online or offline) catches.

Give it a try and you'll see what I mean - I am subscribed to the pro version, but I do a lot of writing and for most guys the free one works just fine...

I also use WordWeb (which is 100% free) since it gives me way more synonyms than Word

Hope this helps

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Derwin

15 years ago

There is no useful tool other than MS Office 2007. Dear you can use it, it is best option for you. You can fix your grammar error and spellings errors very quickly with low effort.
I am using office 2007 and found it very effective and now I can not live without it.You must try it.

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Orator

15 years ago

If you have the money for it, then whitesmoke is the best grammar checker software period. If not, then ms word 2007 is you best alternative, all the freeware ones aren't worth anything.

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tamilseo

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Orator

If you have the money for it, then whitesmoke is the best grammar checker software period. If not, then ms word 2007 is you best alternative, all the freeware ones aren't worth anything.

I have two copies of white smoke. Best software for grammar checking.

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madison_avenue

15 years ago

Thanks for your replies guys! I will be checking out your recommendations out now.

I found this is a quite reasonable one if anybody is interested, it's more for academic essays but still useful. link below:

Paper Rater

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Janice Sperry

15 years ago

Word 2007 and 2010 also have a little used "Readability Statistics" that can be turned on for further refinements and writing improvement.

Can Word Improve Your Writing? - Microsoft Word 2010 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

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tht222 15 years ago

Originally Posted by JMS

Word 2007 and 2010 also have a little used "Readability Statistics" that can be turned on for further refinements and writing improvement.

Great tip BTW, turned it on yesterday and wrote quite a few reviews and aritcles - with Readability Statistics on, you don't need any other tool than Word.
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hayden459

15 years ago

Hey friend there are many gramman checking tools. Some of them are as follows
abiword
language tool
grammar slammer
spellchecker etc.

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uabclst

15 years ago

I have WhiteSmoke but I think it is hyped up. It very seldom reports any grammar errors although English is my second language. I use NeuroGrammar. It has an old fashion interface and is a bit expensive, but it is very advanced.

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madison_avenue

15 years ago

Originally Posted by uabclst

I have WhiteSmoke but I think it is hyped up. It very seldom reports any grammar errors although English is my second language. I use NeuroGrammar. It has an old fashion interface and is a bit expensive, but it is very advanced.

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NeuroGrammar is a pretty powerful piece of software, the best I have seen, at $150 it is costly, but it looks good. By the way, if anyone is interested they have a really cool Typing Tutor software, for free download on the site.