Microsoft Word Grammer Check- And, But, and So/Average Sentence Le

[Guest]

It appears that the developers of Word's grammer check do not agree with
Bryan Garner and other writing experts that proper sentence structure freely
allows a sentence to begin with "And," "But," or "So." This needs to be
changed by the developers immediately. Also, a feature in Tools could be
added to count average sentence length.

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[Guest]

I'm using Word 2003 - I can't recall if the options are the same in earlier
versions.
Go to Tools | Options | Spelling and Grammar tab. Click on the Settings...
button.
Scroll down and beneath the Style: heading there is a checkbox for Snetences
beginning with And, But, and Hopefully. Deselect the box, and the grammar
checker should ignore sentences starting with those words, even if you are
checking grammar and style.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Also, it's possible that the average sentence length is returned as part of
the readability statistics.

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

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I'm using Word 2003 - I can't recall if the options are the same in earlier
versions.
Go to Tools | Options | Spelling and Grammar tab. Click on the Settings...
button.
Scroll down and beneath the Style: heading there is a checkbox for Snetences
beginning with And, But, and Hopefully. Deselect the box, and the grammar
checker should ignore sentences starting with those words, even if you are
checking grammar and style.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...bf0702&dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagement

 

[Guest]

Yes, I agree, but when you actually select the button "explain" it indicates
that using these words to start a sentence is not part of formal writing. I
think the "explain" feature is incorrect.