Grammar check is faulty. Office 2000, 2002 better. Needs work.

Proofreader tells me that the word "an" is incorrect before the word "April"
as in "an Arpril shower." It tells me that "birthdate" should be "birthdates"
or "birth date." I taught English for 40 years, and I know my grammar.

Suzanne
Wed Mar 09 10:52:50 CST 2005

Word's grammar check has always been useless. "Birthdate" *is* incorrect,
but so is "birthdates."

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"Mr Neders" <Mr Neders@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B4235F71-F8ED-4E8B-8A5F-7265E23C1EA2@microsoft.com...
> Proofreader tells me that the word "an" is incorrect before the word
"April"
> as in "an Arpril shower." It tells me that "birthdate" should be
"birthdates"
> or "birth date." I taught English for 40 years, and I know my grammar.

TF
Wed Mar 09 12:14:10 CST 2005

There have been some improvements in Off 2k3 - including 'an April shower'
and the spelling checker now has 'liaison' spelt correctly picking up
'liason' as misspelt.

I clearly remember the fun and games in W2k and W2k2 with the grammar
checker competing with the spell checker. Such classics are northeast or is
it North East or perhaps north-east? There were a whole feast of grammar
discrepancies.

Now grammar cannot make up its mind if a company is singular or plural: 'the
staff are' is corrected to 'the staff is' and then the grammar checker kicks
in with 'the staffs is.'

Wonderfully simple is English!

Terry Farrell

"Mr Neders" <Mr Neders@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B4235F71-F8ED-4E8B-8A5F-7265E23C1EA2@microsoft.com...
: Proofreader tells me that the word "an" is incorrect before the word
"April"
: as in "an Arpril shower." It tells me that "birthdate" should be
"birthdates"
: or "birth date." I taught English for 40 years, and I know my grammar.