Microsoft the company should big improve Word grammar check. No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. That sentence is a confusing jumble. However, it is perfectly fine in the assessment of Microsoft ...

While it may take some time and fine-tuning to get used to the new grammar checker, Microsoft is on the path to making the feature useful for any style of writing. In one of my more recent posts, I ...

You can spell check in Microsoft Word by using its built-in spelling and grammar checker. If enabled, it will automatically underline spelling and grammatical errors ...

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On the right-hand side look for ‘When correcting spelling in Grammar and Word’ section. When found, click the drop-down arrow under Writing Style: and select Grammar & Style. Now, if you would like to ...

‘The’ is the most commonly used word in English. ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’ uses all 26 letters of the English alphabet and is called a pangram. Most average adult English speakers ...

About a decade ago, I read a blog written by a linguistics student who proclaimed, “Prescriptivism must die!!!” He was talking about the school of thought that believes that textbooks and other ...

This past spring, Microsoft released its list of the top 10 grammar mistakes in the English language. The flubs, culled from the editing tools in the company’s software, were reported in an article at ...

Microsoft Word is all too easy to hate. As one of my colleagues at Slate put it in a recent conversation, the venerable program’s ubiquity makes it a bit like the cable company of the software world: ...

Have you ever worked with someone or made a friend who spoke a different language? In high school and college, I worked in a few different restaurant kitchens. Almost immediately, I asked some my ...