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Explains why grammatically correct English fiction fails
February 28, 2007 by Anonymous, 2 years 38 weeks ago
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Pick up your average English language best seller, digitise it and run it through Word's Grammar checker and you will come up with thousands of corrections. The same thing wil happen if you allow an editor to grammar check and correct it - yet best sellers work precisely because they are not grammatically perefect and this may be why!