Environment
This article applies to all customers on version 2023.07 or later with the Grammar Error Correction (GEC) enhancement enabled in their guidance package.
Question
Which guidelines are affected by the Grammar Error Correction update?
Answer
A full list of all Guidelines affected by GEC can be found below:
GOAL - CORRECTNESS:
Punctuation;
- Could you add an apostrophe to this possessive?
- Typo perhaps? Is there final punctuation missing?
- Typo perhaps? There’s an extra comma.
Sentence Structure;
- Could you capitalize this proper noun?
- Could you write this word in lowercase?
- Typo perhaps? There’s a word or punctuation missing.
- Should this verb be singular or plural?
Word Confusion;
- Did you mean “advice” or “advise”?
- Did you mean “amount” or “number”?
- Did you mean “a” or “an”?
- (Did you mean “dependant” or “dependent”?) UK only
- Did you mean “fewer” or “less”?
- Did you mean “it’s” or “its”?
- (Did you mean “licence” or “license”?) UK only
- Did you mean “many” or “much”?
- (Did you mean “practise” or “practice”?) UK only
- Could you remove this unnecessary word?
- Typo perhaps? The words seem mixed up.
- Did you mean “than” or “then”?
- Did you mean “there”, “their” or “they’re”?
- Did you mean “too” or “to”?
- Did you mean “where”, “were” or “we’re”?
- Is this the right preposition?
- Is this the right word?
- Is this the right word in this context?
- Did you mean “your” or “you’re”?
Verbs;
- Is this verb in the right form?
- Could you change this to an “-ing” verb?
- Perhaps add a “to” before the verb?
- Is this verb in the right form?
Non-Native Support;
- Is “a”, “an”, or “the” missing here?
Hyphens;
- These words are normally hyphenated or written together.
GOAL - CLARITY
Comma Usage;
- Could you add a comma here?
Difficult Sentences;
- Could you add a colon or a slash?