Microsoft Grammar and Style Checker (‘Consider Revising’)
Another in a series of invitations to contribute to questions studied by the ‘Bridging the Unbridgeable Project’ at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20358217 |
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| Authors | Viktorija Kostadinova (0009-0005-1911-8329, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 3-4 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-0784 • E-ISSN: 1474-0567 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0266078415000322 |
| OpenAlex | W2161343652 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
I had never given much consideration to the influence of the Microsoft Word grammar and style checker on the average Microsoft Word user. Perhaps that is because I never felt quite bothered by it; as someone who has studied English for almost twenty years now, I always felt I could make my own decisions when it comes to grammar and style matters in English. This feeling, however, changed recently when, in a matter of days, the Microsoft Word grammar and style checker on my recently purchased laptop started disliking all my passive constructions, and suggested that I should replace them with active clauses. I was not impressed. (And even as I am writing this, a lot of the passive constructions in this text are underlined as ‘errors’.)
Art · English grammar · Feeling · Grammar · Laptop · Linguistics · Literature · Programming language · Computer Science · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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