Sure, you can trust grammar check…

Think that Microsoft Word’s grammar check can find and fix your errors in grammar?  ‘Fraid not.  Relying on Word to write grammatically may result in more, not fewer, mistakes.  When a professor from the University of Washington met with a student whose composition was “riddled with bad grammar,” the student retorted that she had scanned her writing with Microsoft’s grammar check.  The professor decided to see just how accurate the grammar check was and typed in this “sentence”:  “Microsoft the company should big improve Word grammar check.”  Huh?  Yes, exactly, yet grammar check showed no errors.  And if you copied and pasted that sentence into Word today, grammar check would still show no errors.  Sure, go ahead; trust those green underlines to find and fix your errors.  See where it gets you.

(from NPR’s Morning Edition, March 29, 2005.)

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