What Is Grammar Checking?
Grammar checking by computer is a software program that scans your text for grammar mistakes. This is done with a sophisticated text search engine that can differentiate between verbs, nouns, adjectives and etc. This text search engine looks for similar sentences by sentence structure. And looks for specific text that is usually involved in grammar mistakes. For example, after “to” always comes a verb. Therefore, if the search engine finds the word “to” and after a noun, such as “to car”. It knows that probably there is a grammar mistake in this sentence. In the same way, the grammar check is done by considering thousands of specific grammar mistakes, and making general rules for them to be picked up by our sophisticated text search engine that is aware of verbs, nouns, and general sentence structure. This technique while it works well, sometimes can fail and mark something as a grammar mistake when it is not a grammar mistake. But with common sense you can figure out pretty easily if