Grammar Checker

[Guest]

The Grammar checker fails to notice when I have missed out the period at the
end of a sentence. Can anyone tell me why this might be?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Without the period, how can it tell where the end of the sentence is?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Simple, Suzanne. A sentence will always begin with a capital letter and be
preceded by a space. Therefore, I would expect the grammar checker to flag up
an error when it found a capital letter in the middle of what, ostensibly, is
one complete sentence.

Word '97 used to pick up these errors for me so, it can work.

Actually, while formulating this reply, I see a glimmer of light. Perhaps I
have told Word to allow isolated capital letters. I will now check this out.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I would hope Word would allow isolated capital letters. How else would you
have any proper nouns?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Daiya Mitchell]

Actually, presumably grammar checker should flag the two sentences together
as a run-on? Does it not?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

That was my thought, too, but since I don't use the grammar checker at all
and have gotten the impression it is useless...

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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