On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:10 PM, baldwin linguas <baldwinling...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Eclipse <eclipse-...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: >> Catching passive voice and other basic grammar? > > It will catch disagreement between subect and predicate, in most > cases, although sometimes erroneously, > as well as adjective and antecedent disagreements, usually. > I wouldn't expect it to catch passive voice. > I believe it allows folks to get away with mixing up > your and you're; > they're, there, their; > to, too, two; > and, it won't stop anyone from committing such atrocities as > "There's apples in the fridge". > I would consider that the most basic of grammar. > It won't correct the use of object pronouns for subjects, or > vice-versa, which is a common error. > It seems to know little or nothing of standard punctuation. > It does not recognize either, run-on sentences, or incomplete ones > (fragments). > It doesn't mind dangling participles. > The vast majority of errors it will catch are so obvious as to render > it useless, > and the less obvious "errors" it catches are often not errors. > It allows, for instance, the following abomination to go uncorrected: > "Me and her went to by one horses." > I find myself frequently correcting its corrections. > Personally, I'd like to know how to disable it, while retaining > spellcheck for catching typos, > but, it seems it's an all-or-nothing affair, sadly. > http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/11/04/dont-mind-your-language%E2%80%A6/ > Thanks you, tony, that seems to sum it up rather nicely. I think it will occasionally catch the homonyms you listed, but rarely.
I too would prefer it wasn't there. One thing that really drove me up the wall was in an earlier incarnation where I was using an ordinary noun as a proper noun, and it kept not realizing that a first letter capital actually meant something different.... (That's been fixed.) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
