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| Thread ID: 9813 | 2001-06-17 06:23:00 | The 'which' 'that' grammar controversy | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 14255 | 2001-06-17 06:23:00 | Does anyone know how to stop Word trying to get me to use 'that' when I want to us 'which'. Grammatically there's nothing in it. In NZ however our ears like 'which'. Can I be the judge without turning off the grammar checker? Thank you. |
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| 14256 | 2001-06-18 05:59:00 | The grammar checker is very pedantic so if you keep it on then I suggest you go with your instinct ie which/that interchangeable in some cases. You do have the choice. | Guest (0) | ||
| 14257 | 2001-06-18 06:27:00 | In Tools;options;spelling and grammar, in the grammar/settings list you can try out a number of options. 'Writing style' in my case is set to 'standard', and I haven't noticed any problems. Within that style, 'phrases' and 'relative clauses' have ticks in their boxes but 'sentence structure' does not. I don't know which setting is causing you frustration; it may be one of these, or perhaps if you switch to the 'casual' rather than the 'standard' setting things may change. I'm referring to Word 97, in my case. You haven't given examples - I have often been irritated by various Americanism I hear or read, but wasn't especially aware of that/which irritation. Cheers! | Guest (0) | ||
| 14258 | 2001-06-18 08:23:00 | Er, don't you just use the context menu ?(Word97). Right mouse click on the green squiggly underlined 'grammatical error'. Somewhere in the context menu that pops up there should be an option to 'ignore rule'. This means that every time Word encounters this type of grammatical error, it will ignore it. You get to keep the grammacheckeron :) |
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| 14259 | 2001-06-18 13:09:00 | Thanks for the help. The tools route is, I think, the best. Right click works fine but has to be done each time you have the document up there. Ignoring it is OK except others often read our documents and maybe think we are morons with this stuff in there! Grammar is (by necessity) rough and ready but can help to pull you up at times. Slightly more control would help. | Guest (0) | ||
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