Grammarian pro windows6/17/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But you can have these grammar checkers as kind of a backup. So the conclusion is that there is no fool proof way to have your Mac check your grammar for you. So you can see that they are all using different ways of checking for grammar. See it got a few of the things in here and you can see that each one of these, the web site, Word and Pages and just TextEdit, got something different. Even a web based app that I was able to copy and paste some text into, didn't catch everything. So it is better than the rest but it is still not perfect. You get to this one here and it figures out here it should be have and even figures out that this should be too. It figures out that it should be nor instead of or here. It gets the its, it gets the who, and it also figures out here like things which, if I Control click on it will say things that. And sure enough when I put the same text here I see it gets a lot more. They've had plenty of time to improve it. After all it has been around for so long, so many versions of Microsoft Word. So you think the best App for this might be Microsoft Word. So it does do a little bit of grammar but it certainly not enough here. But that's it! It really didn't pick of any of the rest here. Let's go to the next and yes it did pick this one up. So the very first suggestion here has nothing to do with grammar, it is just giving you a notice that nice is a weak modifier. You can go to the Proof Reader here and it will give you suggestions. You go down to Edit/Spelling it is just missing from there. Well, at least not any obvious grammar checking. But Pages, believe it or not, doesn't have any grammar checking. ![]() You would think Pages would be able to do better. If I go over of it says consider have and that's where the real problem is. It is interesting if I Control click on been it says it doesn't really give me substitution but it says it may not agree with what is going on. But it did get the error here and it did figure out here that it should be have. Some are really obvious like the wrong form of the word your, it should be you're, and also like down here I am using the wrong to, it should be too. The rest of these all have various different mistakes in it. Here it completely missed the fact that I should be using whom here. Because just as it won't get some errors it will show you some that are not really there. ![]() Also I can select Ignore Grammar if I know I'm right. I can also Control click or right click on it and I can get the substitution right there. If I were actually able to roll over it I can see that it gives me the grammar rule or at least it gives me an idea of a substitution here. It was able to correctly figure out that I used the wrong form of the word its here. So let's take a look at what it did here. So it will do some simple things basically to have you avoid some mistakes but it is no substitution for knowing the correct grammar yourself. So it is very difficult for a computer to actually do accurate grammar checking as we are going to see here. Grammar checking is very difficult compared to that because it has to look at all the context of the words around it, figure out certain rules and everything like that. It simply looks at a list of words and if it is not in the list of words then it must be a misspelled word. So how well does it work? Well, not too well because most of the mistakes here have been missed. Instead of getting a red underline for a misspelled word you get a green underline for something that it feels is grammatically incorrect. Now in TextEdit, as you can in Mail and some other Apps in the Mac, you can go to Edit/Spelling and Grammar and turn on Check Grammar with Spelling and this will add grammar checking to the Spell Checker here. So here I've typed a bunch of sentences which all have grammar mistakes in them. On today's episode let's look at grammar checking on your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 817: Checking Grammar On Your Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. ![]()
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