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Hi,
I'm working on a short story now and I just want someone who is very good at English to scan it for any grammatical errors/corrections/usage of better or appropriate phases wherever applicable.
Thanks
Sharma
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How long your short story is??
It is a 3-pager
roughly 3000 words long
I'm writing the final act now
2000 words....my bad
I think Pankti is the perfect for this..contact her...
I don't have any grammatical errors shown in Word but grammarly has shown me about 90 errors. Working on them. Thanks Animesh and Nandini
use this website polishmywriting.com
In my opinion, when it comes to grammar, nothing works like a human mind. These stupid programs do not understand complex sentences. Also, they are programmed to show passive sentences, which writers do use in their story narration, as the incorrect ones.
I agree with you about the softwares' correction of passive sentences. Very irksome indeed.
Also, these programs do not realize if the articles like "a," "an," and "the" are correctly used or missed where needed.
I never tried Wren and Martin. Is it a good one to start with?
many times the green/red lines still exist though they dont give suggestion in WORD specially...some silly fragments missing or something like that/// faded msg pops up
@NS, if you want to learn the proper usage of articles, then yes. It's a very comprehensive book. Also, if you are a grammar ****, like me, you should try Terry O'Brien's books on grammar. The series have a title of "Little Red Book."
PS: I always carry his book on punctuations in my tote bag. 
wren n martin is good...learnt in school but unfortunately forgot half of it..............................pankti is terry grammar book thick one?
No ND. In fact, the books are quite slim and the content is condensed. My book on punctuations has 128 pages and it's quite a small one in size too. I have Wren & Martin at home. I use it when I have some confusion. But I do carry around this punctuation book as it comes handy in my work when I want to show the rules to my writers
thats cool...though i have W n M ...i never get tempted to check out becos of its thick size...will try the terry one
Ok, I will purchase W n M today..Thanks
Cool Let me know if you find anything confusing. I might be able to help you there.
Hi Narasimha, I can check it for you. Everyone has given good suggestions for improving your grammar above, would like to add that read Editorial page of newspaper and converse in English for better grammar.
Cool :) Add me on your network
Ok...there is a tax details interview there and need some online forms to be filled....will check it from home :) Thanks anyway
if its abt amazon..yea theres some tax related details ...its easy though
Try Ginger :)
blocked at office :P
It comes both as an online as well as an offline tool. You can download the offline version and can use it as per your ease! :)
i am ready to do your work add me on your network bro
use ginger software