Re: [libreoffice-users] Good English Grammar checker?

What I really need to find is a Grammar checker that will spot
things that I miss with my "stroke damaged brain" or someone
with the symptoms of Dyslexia.  People like me have a problem
with spotting missing words or wrong words for the text sentence.

The spell checker works wonders for someone who find it hard to
remember how to spell words that were ease before the stroke.
Actually it is easier for me to type at times then speak the words.

I use to be able to have my wife proof read my documents, but
she developed Alzheimer's and now lives in a nursing facility
not remembering who I am or how to read well.  She was the
daughter of a college professor and use to proof read his student's
essays for misspelling and grammar errors.  She was in high school
at that time and she was "grading" college level papers for their
spelling and grammar.  This was before the computer was a desktop
machine.

I need some system that can do even half as well as my wife did for
me.  I need a system to go over my documents to check all the errors
that it can find for wrong word usage, part of speech error, and
other things that are common besides spelling errors.  I want my
documents to read at the college level, instead of something that
has mistakes a 12 year old would be able to figure out and fix.
There was some Internet service that was able to look at your
document and tell you at what level of communication it was for.
Personal, Business, Technical, or even Legal, or something like
that.  So it would be nice to have some extension to my word
processor to find these grammar issues and help me fix them
easily.

On 01/22/2011 10:43 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> Not sure which "you" you mean, but I have never seen a good grammar
> checker anywhere.  Period.
>
> Way back in the stone age (of WordStar), there was a thing called
> GrammaTek that did a really bad job of grammar-checking, but things
> have progressed a little since then.
>
> Word's grammar checker is the best one I've seen although recently
> I've noticed that LO is flagging some grammar errors and flagging them
> for me.  Some are intentional due to the way I write or a point I'm
> trying to make, but in general it makes me look at something that
> might be wrong.
>
> If you right-click a grammar-highlighted word or phrase, it should
> tell you what it thinks is wrong with it.
>
> However, grammar checkers don't catch misspelled words (spell checkers
> do that), they sometimes catch misapplied homonyms, which is not the
> same thing although it is or can be useful.
>
> Personally, I prefer a human proof-reader, even if it's me, because at
> least with English, grammar is too complex for most (not all) programs
> to do it justice, whereas I can usually spot a grammo while reading
> because they tend to jar my understanding enough to look twice.
>
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 6:39 PM, webmaster@krackedpress.com
> <webmaster@krackedpress.com>  wrote:
> > Are you telling us there is a Grammar Checker that will catch
> > more then a miss spelling ward or too?


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