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- Learning Correct Grammar for Windows
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- Using Correct Grammar for Windows is extraordinarily simple, thanks
- to the standard "Windows look." Correct Grammar conforms to all
- Windows conventions such as menus and key usage, and uses the
- excellent Windows Help system, which you can access by simply pressing
- F1.
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- Read this document leisurely, follow Correct Grammar's advice, and see
- how it can improve your communications. PLEASE NOTE: This document
- has intentional errors in its text to illustrate how the program works.
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- The club provides parking for it's members.
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- When Correct Grammar finds something questionable in your writing, it
- displays a specific suggestion. If you are not sure why you should
- follow it, click the Tutorial button.
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- Will John or me be hired?
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- Correct Grammar suggests that you consider using "I" in this
- sentence. To accept Correct Grammar's suggestion and to have it
- make the change automatically for you, click the Change button.
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- The delegates conference started early.
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- In this case, you see two choices in the suggestion box; point to
- the one you want, and double-click on it to make the correction automatically.
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- When you prefer to rewrite the sentence, either click on Edit, or better
- yet just point to where you want to make the change, click on the mouse,
- and make the changes.
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- After any change, Correct Grammar always checks your sentence
- again, so if you make another mistake you'll know about it right
- away.
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- While editing, you can use all the standard Windows editing keys to
- move around and edit your text.
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- These keys include: insert, delete, cursor, ctrl-cursor, PgUp and PgDn,
- Home, End, Ctrl Home, Ctrl End, selection, cut, copy, paste, delete, undo.
- Refer to your Windows manual for detailed descriptions.
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- Can you spell washington?
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- Correct Grammar knows just the right thing to do on the sentence
- above, and Change will fix the capitalization of Washington.
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- Some words that Correct Grammar doesn't recognize are proper
- nouns, such as Michelangelo. Correct Grammar will tell you that
- the word is not in its dictionary. Just select Add to include
- the word in your personal dictionary. Correct Grammar will ask
- if you want the word always capitalized. If you reply Y, Correct
- Grammar will flag michelangelo as a capitalization error in the
- future.
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- When Correct Grammar Makes a Misteak
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- From time to time, even Correct Grammar gets confused. The
- Ignore option lets you go on to the next problem. This
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- Are You Readable?
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- Correct Grammar 3.0 is the only program of its kind that notifies
- you about each sentence that is too long or too hard to read.
- Here's one:
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- The committee sent the new report to its subcommittee on
- regional affairs for review and possible amendment to include the
- new information regarding the loss of wetlands along the central
- and southern coastal plains.
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- That sentence violates the standard for sentence length, as the first
- message tells you. Skip or Ignore that message and you see another
- one telling you that it is hard to read. Correct Grammar has flagged
- the sentence so you can edit it immediately. Both the maximum sentence
- length and the target grade level are adjustable in the Readability Maximums
- section of the Rules Menu.
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- Correct Grammar also reports on the readability of the whole document.
- At the end of this document, if you turn on the Readability/Display
- readability summary option On, you will see this display. It will
- appear for every document until you turn it off in the same way.
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- Rules and Preferences
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- Because you are the ultimate judge of your writing, Correct
- Grammar lets you turn most of its rules of analyssis on and off.
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- The Options menu lets you decide simple things such as whether to
- check spelling (or not), or to check for spelling only (omitting grammar
- and style)! You can also check the readability of each sentence only, or for the
- readability of the whole document. For a complete explanation
- of these topics, refer to Help/Procedures.
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- You can also use the Quiet button to change the way Correct Grammar
- works, for either the section of text you are working on, or permanently.
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- And, you can even create your own lists of forbidden words and expressions.
- For this advanced topic please consult your manual.
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- We encourage you to take the Correct Grammar TOUR for a complete
- demonstration of what Correct Grammar can do.
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- Now, to preserve this Practice document's integrity, please
- Discard your changes at the next screen.!
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