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Grammar Correction Glitch.
Is Word just expressing a grammatical preference here?
In word, type in the following sentence:
He lay there, his eyes open.
Then hit enter. It will prompt you to change the comma to a semi-colon.
Let it do that. It produces "He lay there; his eyes open."
It wants to correct the semi-colon to a comma.
Here, I'll show you in this .gif that I captured:
Does the same happen for you?
Word's grammar checker is reading "his eyes open" as a declarative sentence with "open" as a verb. Your sentence is fine. Another way of putting it that would not give you the correction would be "He lay there with his eyes open. He could not get to sleep." That is not a better construction, though, IMO.
Machine proofreading is an adjunct to human intervention, not a substitute. Word is wrong here.
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Word's grammar checker is reading "his eyes open" as a declarative sentence with "open" as a verb. Your sentence is fine. Another way of putting it that would not give you the correction would be "He lay there with his eyes open. He could not get to sleep." That is not a better construction, though, IMO.
Machine proofreading is an adjunct to human intervention, not a substitute. Word is wrong here.
Thanks Charles. I can see that now. Much obliged.
