grammar checking

Correcting written errors

Grammar checking is the process of examining text for errors in syntax, punctuation, spelling, and usage.

Software tools now perform most grammar checking automatically: The document passed grammar checking with no errors.

As an adjective, it modifies related nouns: grammar-checking software, grammar-checking tools.

Opposites
type of text evaluation

grammar checkingfact-checking

Confirming accuracy of claims

creative writing · rhetorical analysis

text modification activity

grammar checkingfree writing

Uncensored, continuous prose generation

poetic license · stream of consciousness · creative expression · experimental writing · artistic license

error detection vs. error creation

grammar checkinggarbling

Corrupting transmitted information

making mistakes

Family

grammar, checking, grammar check, grammar checker

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G