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2. Grammar checker - Wikipedia

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   A grammar checker will find each sentence in a text, look up each word in the dictionary, and then attempt to parse the sentence into a form that matches a grammar. Using various rules, the program can then detect various errors, such as agreement in tense, number, word order, and so on. It is also possible to detect some stylistic problems ...

3. LanguageTool - Wikipedia

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   LanguageTool does not check a sentence for grammatical correctness, but whether it contains typical errors. Therefore, it is easy to invent ungrammatical sentences that LanguageTool will still accept.

4. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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   (Online summary of BS5261, open access via "Proofmarks") BSI proof-correction marks (conforming to BS 5261C:2005) as prepared by the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading; The style guide for publications of the European Union is presented in 24 European languages and includes a section on proofreading. Each edition has a sheet of ...

5. Spell checker - Wikipedia

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   Spell checkers can use approximate string matching algorithms such as Levenshtein distance to find correct spellings of misspelled words. [1] An alternative type of spell checker uses solely statistical information, such as n-grams, to recognize errors instead of correctly-spelled words. This approach usually requires a lot of effort to obtain ...

6. Autocorrection - Wikipedia

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   Autocorrect in Windows 10, correcting the word "mispelled" to "misspelled".. Autocorrection, also known as text replacement, replace-as-you-type, text expander or simply autocorrect, is an automatic data validation function commonly found in word processors and text editing interfaces for smartphones and tablet computers.

7. Cloze test - Wikipedia

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   The definition of success in a given cloze test varies, depending on the broader goals behind the exercise. Assessment may depend on whether the exercise is objective (i.e. students are given a list of words to use in a cloze) or subjective (i.e. students are to fill in a cloze with words that would make a given sentence grammatically correct).