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Rule-based checks for the mistakes that survive a spell check.
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The Grammar Checker applies around a hundred explicit rules to catch the mistakes made of correctly spelled words — their and there, doubled words across a line break, "a hour", comma splices and wordy phrases. Rule-based means fast, private and predictable.
The mistakes that survive a spell check are the ones made of correctly spelled words: "their" for "there", "its" for "it's", "a hour", a doubled "the the" across a line break, or a sentence that lost its verb during an edit.
This applies around a hundred rules to find them. Commonly confused word pairs are checked in context. The a/an rule is applied by sound rather than by letter, so "an hour" and "a university" both come out right. Doubled words, missing sentence-final punctuation, comma splices, passive constructions and wordy phrases that have shorter equivalents are all flagged. It is rule-based rather than a language model, which means it is fast, private and honest about what it can see — it will not rewrite your sentence, and it will not pretend to understand it.
Their and there, its and it's, affect and effect, checked in context rather than blindly.
"An hour" and "a university" both come out right, which letter-based checking gets wrong.
Passive voice is often correct, so it is a flag you can turn off rather than an error.
Each flag says which convention it applies, so you can disagree with it knowingly.
No language model, no request — the rules run in your browser.
An email, an article, a report or an application.
Each one is shown in context with an explanation of the rule.
Style rules such as passive voice can be switched off when they do not apply.
Edit in place and the flags update as you go.
It applies explicit rules rather than a language model. That makes it fast, completely private and predictable — but it cannot rewrite a clumsy sentence or judge whether a paragraph makes sense, which a model can.
No. It is the right choice when the actor is unknown, unimportant or deliberately unnamed — "the results were published in 1953" is fine. It is flagged as something to look at, not as an error, and the rule can be switched off.
By sound, not spelling. "An hour" because the h is silent; "a university" because it starts with a "yoo" sound. The rule includes the exceptions where letter-based checking gets it wrong.
No, and no rule-based checker can. It catches the common, mechanical mistakes reliably. Reading the text aloud — which the Text to Speech tool makes easy — catches the rest.
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