If the computer says it's wrong, it likely is.
But if the computer DOES NOT say it's wrong, that DOES NOT mean that it's right.
Feh! Who needs a grammar checker, anyway! That are a stupid idea!
Not in my experience! In writing an essay for an English class today, it "checked" my essay automatically and tried to make me turn a statement into a question, simply because.
"If the computer says it's wrong, it likely is."
One of the things that has PISSED me off with MS spel cheker is how Microsoft has all but obliterated the proper use of the apostrophe.
It gets it right with contractions as in "it's" for "it is".
But when an apostrophe is used in the possessive tense MS has rewritten grammar for a generation.
The possessive use, such as its' or Bobs' , is obliterated by spel cheker. If it does not obliterate the proper use it alters the possessive to a contraction.
Bobs' becomes Bob's which has a different meaning.
"Bobs' car" becomes, literally, "Bob's car" which means "Bob is car".
Bob is not a car, Bob has a car.
But why should MS care?
"If the computer says it's wrong, it likely is."
No, I have had the computer suggest some outrageously stupid grammar "corrections". If I had made these suggested changes, I would have looked like a complete mororn. If you don't know grammar, you have no business letting the computer check it for you. It is only good at finding some errors. As the guy said, go learn grammar first.
Well, I guess the passive voice is always wrong, then, because the grammar checker always marks the use of the passive voice as wrong....