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Hi,
As this is my second post, and everybody was very helpful with good advice, I thought I would be bold again and ask another question.
Does anybody know (if it is possible) where I can buy (or is there such a thing) as a CD-ROM Grammar Checker? I’ve used an online one (trial) but they want $7.00 per month for such privilege. I don’t use it enough for a monthly payment.
My grammar is pretty reasonable, however, because I write a lot mistakes slip through and I have found that with the online grammar checker (which I mentioned above) does pull up the mistakes I had missed. If nobody knows of one that I can buy do you know of any free online ones?
I do use Word (2010) and their grammar checker is terrible and very primitive so I don’t use it.
Again thank you.
Glenn (voice)
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No; Ginger. Is Grammerly free and any good? Do you know of one you can buy? Thanks.
Just looked it up and it's expensive. It's also American which might be a problem if you're not writing for a US market.
Ginger was also American and wasn't exactly that good. But I would prefer a CD-ROM.
I have just subscribed to WM and before that I bought a few copies; I'll check thanks. But if anybody knows of a CD-ROM to purchase please tell!
Thanks for that advice.
I want to thank you for pointing me in the direction of your article. It was very informative, especially on the grammar checker in Word. I actually thought it was useless until I looked deeper and clicked a few extra buttons and now I am using to its full potential. It has made me revise some of my work (or notice what I had missed).
Again thank you. I am glad I have subscribed to Writing Magazine and joined this forum/ web site.
Glenn (voice)