Seth Dillingham provided some friendly criticism today about the word choices in my article about bound URLs. Part of the problem is I stayed awake until 4 a.m. watching election returns, and another part of the problem is the ambitious writing schedule I set for myself which does not allow for much time for careful proofreading. A bigger problem, however, is that I used to run articles through a grammar checker but since forswearing word processors for a simple text editor, I have not had access to a decent grammar checker.
Doing a quick Internet search, the only grammar checker for Windows I could find that was not part of a word processing program was WinterTree Software’s Grammar Expert Plus. Simply copy text to the clipboard, launch Grammar Expert Plus, and the program will check for common grammatical problems.
It did a good job of finding comon grammatical errors in articles I threw at it, but unfortunately there is no feature to allow users to create their own grammatical rules, which limits its usefulness. Still, it keeps me from having to install Word, WordPerfect or those other bloated word processing applications.
I am using Grammar expert plus Trail version. I also found it useful. But whatever suggestions it is showing, are they really right?
Wow. I’m surprised they’re still publishing Grammar Expert Plus. With all automated grammar checkers, you need to do your own “does this make sense” check.