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Subject:Re: Can a grammar checker do this From:John Cornellier <tw -at- cornellier -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 05 Mar 2002 09:22:11 +0100
<DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com> wrote:
>a linguist* had the idea of using a
>computer to assess the grammatical correctness of a sentence by
>searching for it a database of pre-existing published writing
You can do that with www.google.com, in so far as usage is a measure of correctness. I do when in doubt about some
neologism like "unconfigure" or "deconfigure".
If you google on "even is you have money" (note quote marks), Google googles back with
Your search - "even is you have money" - did not match any documents. Did you mean: "even if you have money"
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