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Learning Correct Grammar for Windows
Thanks to the standard "Windows look", using Correct Grammar for
Windows is extraordinarily simple. Correct Grammar conforms to all
Windows conventions such as menus and key usage, and uses the
excellent Windows Help system, which you can access by simply pressing
F1.
Read this document leisurely, follow Correct Grammar's advice, and see
how it can improve your communications. PLEASE NOTE: This document
has intentional errors in its text to illustrate how the program works.
The club provides parking for it's members.
When Correct Grammar finds something questionable in your writing, it
displays a specific suggestion. If you are not sure why you should
follow it, click the Tutorial button.
Will John or me be hired?
Correct Grammar suggests that you consider using "I" in this
sentence. Click the Change button to approve Correct Grammar's suggestion and to have it
make the change automatically for you.
The delegates conference started early.
In this case, you see two choices in the suggestion box; point to
the one you want, and double-click on it to make the correction automatically.
When you prefer to rewrite the sentence, either click on Edit, or better
yet just point to where you want to make the change, click on the mouse,
and make the changes.
After any change, Correct Grammar always checks your sentence
again, so if you make another mistake you'll know about it right
away.
While editing, you can use all the standard Windows editing keys to
move around and edit your text.
These keys include: insert, delete, cursor, ctrl-cursor, PgUp and PgDn,
Home, End, Ctrl Home, Ctrl End, selection, cut, copy, paste, delete, undo.
Refer to your Windows manual for detailed descriptions.
Can you spell washington?
Correct Grammar knows just the right thing to do on the sentence
above, and Change will fix the capitalization of Washington.
Some words that Correct Grammar doesn't recognize are proper
nouns, such as Michelangelo. Correct Grammar will tell you that
the word is not in its dictionary. Just select Add to include
the word in your supplemental dictionary. Correct Grammar will ask
if you want the word always capitalized. If you reply Y, Correct
Grammar will flag michelangelo as a capitalization error in the
future.
When Correct Grammar Makes a Misteak
From time to time, even Correct Grammar gets confused. The
Ignore option lets you go on to the next problem. This
most handy
at times!!
Are You Readable?
Correct Grammar 3.0 is the only program of its kind that notifies
you about each sentence that is too long or too hard to read.
Here's one:
The committee sent the new report to its subcommittee on
regional affairs for review and possible amendment to include the
new information regarding the loss of wetlands along the central
and southern coastal plains.
That sentence violates the standard for sentence length, as the first
message tells you. Skip or Ignore that message and you see another
one telling you that it is hard to read. Correct Grammar has flagged
the sentence so you can edit it immediately. Both the maximum sentence
length and the target grade level are adjustable in the Readability Maximums
section of the Rules Menu.
Correct Grammar also reports on the readability of the whole document.
At the end of this document, if you turn on the Readability/Display
readability summary option On, you will see this display. It will
appear for every document until you turn it off in the same way.
Rules and Preferences
Because you are the ultimate judge of your writing, Correct
Grammar lets you turn most of its rules of analyssis on and off.
The Options menu lets you decide simple things such as whether to
check spelling (or not), or to check for spelling only (omitting grammar
and style)! You can also check the readability of each sentence only, or for the
readability of the whole document. For a complete explanation
of these topics, refer to Help/Procedures.
You can also use the Quiet button to change the way Correct Grammar
works, for either the section of text you are working on, or permanently.
And, you can even create your own lists of forbidden words and expressions.
For this advanced topic please consult your manual.
We encourage you to take the Correct Grammar TOUR for a complete
demonstration of what Correct Grammar can do.
Now, to preserve this Practice document's integrity, please
Discard your changes at the next screen.!