Grammar checking tools
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Venkatraman wrote: Taking a clue from Nishanth's question N i s h a n t No trailing 'h' please. Nish :rolleyes:
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Hi, Taking a clue from Nishanth's question i would like to hear from you guys, is there any tools or web sites available to check for the grammatical correctness in a given text. Say for example when to use "a", "an" or "the" or like when to use "did + subject + verb in present tense" form or "subject + Verb in past tense" form. Thanks, Venkat Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Bangalore - India Reality bites: I am reality
Venkatraman wrote: Taking a clue from Nishanth's question i would like to hear from you guys, is there any tools or web sites available to check for the grammatical correctness in a given text. ... are there any tools or web sites .... ;P Sorry, couldn't resist. Vikram.
http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." – Richard Bach, "Illusions".
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Hi, Taking a clue from Nishanth's question i would like to hear from you guys, is there any tools or web sites available to check for the grammatical correctness in a given text. Say for example when to use "a", "an" or "the" or like when to use "did + subject + verb in present tense" form or "subject + Verb in past tense" form. Thanks, Venkat Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Bangalore - India Reality bites: I am reality
Essentially, a/an are more general and 'the' is more specific. So the sentence, "Pet a dog." means you should pet any dog at all, whereas, "Pet the dog." implies there is a certain dog being referred to. Use "a" when the following word begins with a consonant, and "an" with vowels. a dog an adorable dog an apple a delicious apple an awfully delicious apple http://textant.colostate.edu/grammarbook/title.html[^] or get a copy of Elements of Style[^] BW
I want pancakes! God, do you people understand every language except English?
Yo quiero pancakes. Donnez moi pancakes. Click click, bloody click pancakes!
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Hi, Taking a clue from Nishanth's question i would like to hear from you guys, is there any tools or web sites available to check for the grammatical correctness in a given text. Say for example when to use "a", "an" or "the" or like when to use "did + subject + verb in present tense" form or "subject + Verb in past tense" form. Thanks, Venkat Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Bangalore - India Reality bites: I am reality
I don't think there are any online tools for English grammar. (MS Word can help you in one way) I would suggest you to pickup any TOEFL or GRE book, that will give you some advantage. Also read the 'English' column (I forgot the day it runs) in 'The Hindu' newspaper. [EDIT URL:] KNOW YOUR ENGLISH[^]
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Hi, Taking a clue from Nishanth's question i would like to hear from you guys, is there any tools or web sites available to check for the grammatical correctness in a given text. Say for example when to use "a", "an" or "the" or like when to use "did + subject + verb in present tense" form or "subject + Verb in past tense" form. Thanks, Venkat Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Bangalore - India Reality bites: I am reality
Microsoft Word does some decent grammar checking. Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO
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Essentially, a/an are more general and 'the' is more specific. So the sentence, "Pet a dog." means you should pet any dog at all, whereas, "Pet the dog." implies there is a certain dog being referred to. Use "a" when the following word begins with a consonant, and "an" with vowels. a dog an adorable dog an apple a delicious apple an awfully delicious apple http://textant.colostate.edu/grammarbook/title.html[^] or get a copy of Elements of Style[^] BW
I want pancakes! God, do you people understand every language except English?
Yo quiero pancakes. Donnez moi pancakes. Click click, bloody click pancakes!
-- Stewie Griffinbrianwelsch wrote: Use "a" when the following word begins with a consonant, and "an" with vowels. A unicorn just whispered a secret in my ear... ;) -- My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. I blog too now[^]
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brianwelsch wrote: Use "a" when the following word begins with a consonant, and "an" with vowels. A unicorn just whispered a secret in my ear... ;) -- My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. I blog too now[^]
Well, errrr, *cough* it would seem the mythical nature of the unicorn causes an exception in this case.:~ Of course, I stand corrected. BW
I want pancakes! God, do you people understand every language except English?
Yo quiero pancakes. Donnez moi pancakes. Click click, bloody click pancakes!
-- Stewie Griffin -
Well, errrr, *cough* it would seem the mythical nature of the unicorn causes an exception in this case.:~ Of course, I stand corrected. BW
I want pancakes! God, do you people understand every language except English?
Yo quiero pancakes. Donnez moi pancakes. Click click, bloody click pancakes!
-- Stewie Griffinbrianwelsch wrote: Of course, I stand corrected. Half corrected I'd say. If I recall correctly, there's always an "an" before words starting with a vowel sound, and never when words start with a consonant sound. Yellow and Unicorn both start with a soft J (that's a J without the hard D), which is a consonant sound. I find it interesting though that the letter Y has been classified as a vowel in the English language. I don't know any instance where it's actually pronounced as a vowel. Do you? :~ The Swedish pronounciation of Y is very close to the German Ü. Do you know of any English word with a sound remotely close to Ü? Using Ü as reference may be a bad choice. I've noticed that the pronounciation of Ü differ a lot between different dialects. -- My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. I blog too now[^]
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I don't think there are any online tools for English grammar. (MS Word can help you in one way) I would suggest you to pickup any TOEFL or GRE book, that will give you some advantage. Also read the 'English' column (I forgot the day it runs) in 'The Hindu' newspaper. [EDIT URL:] KNOW YOUR ENGLISH[^]
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is husband.
This signature was created by "Code Project Quoter".Kant wrote: I forgot the day it runs Tuesdays... :-) I learnt most of my vocabulary from this column.The original columnist K.Subrahmanyam, a professor of CIEFL(Central Inst. of English and Foreign Languages),Hyderabad passed away a few years ago. His son Upendran, an english professor himself, is continuing the column. Regards,
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brianwelsch wrote: Of course, I stand corrected. Half corrected I'd say. If I recall correctly, there's always an "an" before words starting with a vowel sound, and never when words start with a consonant sound. Yellow and Unicorn both start with a soft J (that's a J without the hard D), which is a consonant sound. I find it interesting though that the letter Y has been classified as a vowel in the English language. I don't know any instance where it's actually pronounced as a vowel. Do you? :~ The Swedish pronounciation of Y is very close to the German Ü. Do you know of any English word with a sound remotely close to Ü? Using Ü as reference may be a bad choice. I've noticed that the pronounciation of Ü differ a lot between different dialects. -- My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. I blog too now[^]
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: I find it interesting though that the letter Y has been classified as a vowel in the English language. HUH? Ever since KG, I've been taught Y is a consonant. However, I read somewhere that H and Y are called half-consonants (or half-vowels, I don't remember which; though they're technically the same ;) .) On a slightly related note, how do you pronounce ö (as in Schrödinger)? Is it pronounced o-yee? Vikram.
http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." – Richard Bach, "Illusions".
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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: I find it interesting though that the letter Y has been classified as a vowel in the English language. HUH? Ever since KG, I've been taught Y is a consonant. However, I read somewhere that H and Y are called half-consonants (or half-vowels, I don't remember which; though they're technically the same ;) .) On a slightly related note, how do you pronounce ö (as in Schrödinger)? Is it pronounced o-yee? Vikram.
http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." – Richard Bach, "Illusions".
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: HUH? Ever since KG, I've been taught Y is a consonant. the vowel letters are usually A, E, I, O, U, and in some languages Y, as in English and W, as in Welsh[^] What is written is not always what is said. :) Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: On a slightly related note, how do you pronounce ö (as in Schrödinger)? Is it pronounced o-yee? Think of the vowel sounds in burn and learn. I think that's right. It's always hard to communicate sounds without a sound carrying medium :sigh: -- My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. I blog too now[^]
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: HUH? Ever since KG, I've been taught Y is a consonant. the vowel letters are usually A, E, I, O, U, and in some languages Y, as in English and W, as in Welsh[^] What is written is not always what is said. :) Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: On a slightly related note, how do you pronounce ö (as in Schrödinger)? Is it pronounced o-yee? Think of the vowel sounds in burn and learn. I think that's right. It's always hard to communicate sounds without a sound carrying medium :sigh: -- My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. I blog too now[^]
Frankly, that Wikipedia article is surprising. I know English better than any of the other half-dozen languages I speak (except my native tongue Marathi) and have spoken it all my life, but I've never come across anybody saying Y is a vowel. The closest that comes is the book which said it's a half-consonant. After looking at the article you linked to, I did some Googling and found something interesting. Googling for "english vowels a e i o u" generates 4040 matches, while googling for "english vowels a e i o u y" generates 258 results and Google inquires politely, Did you mean: english vowels A E I O U ? (Omit the quotes while searching) So, is your name pronounced Jo-yeer-gen? And was that cat owner called Shro-yee-din-ger? :~ Another doubt: are the Gs in the above names pronounced as the G in Gas or as the G in Large? :~ Vikram.
http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." – Richard Bach, "Illusions".
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Frankly, that Wikipedia article is surprising. I know English better than any of the other half-dozen languages I speak (except my native tongue Marathi) and have spoken it all my life, but I've never come across anybody saying Y is a vowel. The closest that comes is the book which said it's a half-consonant. After looking at the article you linked to, I did some Googling and found something interesting. Googling for "english vowels a e i o u" generates 4040 matches, while googling for "english vowels a e i o u y" generates 258 results and Google inquires politely, Did you mean: english vowels A E I O U ? (Omit the quotes while searching) So, is your name pronounced Jo-yeer-gen? And was that cat owner called Shro-yee-din-ger? :~ Another doubt: are the Gs in the above names pronounced as the G in Gas or as the G in Large? :~ Vikram.
http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." – Richard Bach, "Illusions".
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: 4040 matches vs 258 results Y is a vowel letter, but not a vowel sound. The English language does not have (to my knowledge) the distinct Y sound as we have in Swedish. But I'm guessing that it had at some point, otherwise the letter Y would not be classified as a vowel. A backwards compatability thing. :-D Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: So, is your name pronounced Jo-yeer-gen? It's more like Yurgen. The J is soft (The English Y is the Swedish J :-D), and the ö is a simple vowel (not a dipthong or anything). Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: And was that cat owner called Shro-yee-din-ger? I don't know how to transliterate this one. But the ö in Schrödinger is a bit longer than Jörgen. Shr-uu-dinger? :-D Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: Another doubt: are the Gs in the above names pronounced as the G in Gas or as the G in Large? Gassy G in Jörgen ;) Almost silent G in Schrödinger - it's a standard -ng sound as in lightning for example. -- My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. I blog too now[^]
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: 4040 matches vs 258 results Y is a vowel letter, but not a vowel sound. The English language does not have (to my knowledge) the distinct Y sound as we have in Swedish. But I'm guessing that it had at some point, otherwise the letter Y would not be classified as a vowel. A backwards compatability thing. :-D Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: So, is your name pronounced Jo-yeer-gen? It's more like Yurgen. The J is soft (The English Y is the Swedish J :-D), and the ö is a simple vowel (not a dipthong or anything). Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: And was that cat owner called Shro-yee-din-ger? I don't know how to transliterate this one. But the ö in Schrödinger is a bit longer than Jörgen. Shr-uu-dinger? :-D Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: Another doubt: are the Gs in the above names pronounced as the G in Gas or as the G in Large? Gassy G in Jörgen ;) Almost silent G in Schrödinger - it's a standard -ng sound as in lightning for example. -- My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. I blog too now[^]
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: Y is a vowel letter, but not a vowel sound. I'm still inclined to disagree, but :-> forget it. Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: A backwards compatability thing. :laugh: That must be it. Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: The English Y is the Swedish J Oh! I didn't know that. Thanks! Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. If you can send me a clear MP3 of you pronouncing your name, I can transliterate it for you into Hindi/Marathi and Tamil. (Hindi and Marathi use the same Devanagri script, so there'd be no difference in how you write your name in them) Vikram.
http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." – Richard Bach, "Illusions".
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brianwelsch wrote: Of course, I stand corrected. Half corrected I'd say. If I recall correctly, there's always an "an" before words starting with a vowel sound, and never when words start with a consonant sound. Yellow and Unicorn both start with a soft J (that's a J without the hard D), which is a consonant sound. I find it interesting though that the letter Y has been classified as a vowel in the English language. I don't know any instance where it's actually pronounced as a vowel. Do you? :~ The Swedish pronounciation of Y is very close to the German Ü. Do you know of any English word with a sound remotely close to Ü? Using Ü as reference may be a bad choice. I've noticed that the pronounciation of Ü differ a lot between different dialects. -- My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. I blog too now[^]
Y is a vowel in words like belly. another exception to my a/an rule is "an historical moment". BW
I want pancakes! God, do you people understand every language except English?
Yo quiero pancakes. Donnez moi pancakes. Click click, bloody click pancakes!
-- Stewie Griffin -
Y is a vowel in words like belly. another exception to my a/an rule is "an historical moment". BW
I want pancakes! God, do you people understand every language except English?
Yo quiero pancakes. Donnez moi pancakes. Click click, bloody click pancakes!
-- Stewie Griffinbrianwelsch wrote: Y is a vowel in words like belly. Oh, there it was! :) brianwelsch wrote: another exception to my a/an rule is "an historical moment". Do you know if there is there any logic behind that exception? I suppose the h is rather silent, but it's not entirely gone. I mean, my mouth doesn't jam if I say "a historical" as it does when I say "a orange". -- My name in Katakana is ヨルゲン. My name in German is Jörgen. My name in Mandarin/Kanji is 乔尔根 西格瓦德森. I blog too now[^]
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Microsoft Word does some decent grammar checking. Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO
All, thanks a plenty for your suggestions. I was away for a week and did not have accesss to internet. Regards, Venkat Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Bangalore - India Reality bites: I am reality