Very good software for English writing

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san - 22 Jan 2007 11:51 GMT

I have recently bought software for English writing. It is really a
good software.

It not only checks & corrects English grammar but it also has one
excellent text enrichment feature, which suggests adjective & adverbs
for your text to make it more professional. It has really helped me in
my office work and also for writing articles.

The drawback with this software is that, you have to be online while
editing the text with this software, because it uses some online
natural language processing technology or artificial intelligence
database, which is updated on a daily basis. The only benefit of this
online feature is that your text will be edited with the updated
database.

I got this software from
http://www.truevalue4money.com

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georgeh@ankerstein.org - 22 Jan 2007 13:40 GMT

> I have recently bought software for English writing. It is really a
> good software.
>
> It not only checks & corrects English grammar

I have never found any software that worked acceptably. Just
mix randomly "too", "to" and "two", as well as "for" and "four".
Type "fro" for "for" and "tow" for "two". Then try it on the hard
ones -- "calender" vs. "calendar" and "stationary" vs. "stationery".

See how many errors it finds.

GFH

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san - 22 Jan 2007 18:00 GMT

> I have never found any software that worked acceptably. Just
> mix randomly "too", "to" and "two", as well as "for" and "four".
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>
> GFH

Yes, you are right, that no software can detect these differences. The
good thing about that software which I found was text enrichment. It
really changes the look of the sentence.
For ex., when I typed "How to achieve success in business is by
using effective ....." It suggested two adjectives for enrichments
like ultimately achieve & amazing success.
So I used "how to ultimately achieve amazing success in
............".
As far as difference between to & too is concerned, even this software
can not make out the difference.

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Barbara Bailey - 22 Jan 2007 19:39 GMT

>> I have never found any software that worked acceptably. Just
>> mix randomly "too", "to" and "two", as well as "for" and "four".
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>As far as difference between to & too is concerned, even this software
>can not make out the difference.

"Enmrichment" is useless when the grammar is wrong.

"How to achieve success in business is by..." is wrong. No number of
enriching adjectives will change that.

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Robert Lieblich - 22 Jan 2007 23:14 GMT

[ . . . ]

> The good thing about that software which I found was text enrichment. It
> really changes the look of the sentence.

> For ex., when I typed "How to achieve success in business is by
> using effective ....." It suggested two adjectives for enrichments
> like ultimately achieve & amazing success.

> So I used "how to ultimately achieve amazing success in
> ............".

If this is a typical example, the software is worse than useless. The
last thing most English writing needs is added adjectives and
adverbs. This is one topic on which Will Strunk has something useful
to say: "Omit needless words." If you're a customer of whoever is
selling this crap, get your money back. If you're trying to push it
on us, go away.

Consider, by the way, how much less forceful the preceding paragraph
would be if you tarted it up with surplus adjectives and adverbs.

[ ... ]

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Bob Lieblich
Whose principal writing tool is between his ears

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Barbara Bailey - 22 Jan 2007 19:37 GMT

>I have recently bought software for English writing. It is really a
>good software.

It is "a good program" or it is "good software." It is not "a good
software". It may also be "a good software package."

>It not only checks & corrects English grammar but it also has one
>excellent text enrichment feature,

It only has one?

>which suggests adjective

adjective*s*

> & adverbs
>for your text to make it more professional. It has really helped me in
>my office work and also for writing articles.

"In my office work and in writing articles" It may have "been helpful
for writing articles."

>The drawback with this software is that,

Lose the comma

>you have to be online while
>editing the text with this software,

That's rather a substantial drawback.

>because it uses some online
>natural language processing technology or artificial intelligence
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>I got this software from
>http://www.truevalue4money.com

And I bet you have absolutely nothing to do with this company, either.

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QT - 23 Jan 2007 09:01 GMT

> That's rather a substantial drawback.

That's *a rather substantial drawback*.

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Very good software for English writing