Ultralingua Grammatica English for Mac

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• bad in spanish

  Expert DecisionsJune 11, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />It performs very bad in Spanish rendering it useless. For instance in this sentence: "Como recuerdas hay dos administradores, uno que es Pepe y otro que es Luis" (As you remember there are two administrators, one of them is called John and the other one is called Peter) It says there is a plural conflict between "dos" and "uno" (two and one) what is false.

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• Get a grip, folks!

  chantal717December 31, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />&lt;p&gt;Aside from the fact that some of the comments don't even pertain to the new version, I think some of you need to be a little more realistic about what you can expect from electronic grammar checkers. I've been using three modules -- English and French since version 5, and now the German one. While the English checker doesn't find everything, I find it at least as good as MS Word's checker, and it can be used in all other apps. (By the way, out of curiosity I ran fsvwbug's sentence through Word's checker, which also didn't find any errors...). In French, Grammatica is far superior to Word. My knowledge of German isn't as good, but the app seems to find plenty of the errors I make. For Schmiegel, who complained that it doesn't locate duplicate words, maybe he should try checking the preference for that ;-)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;So, no, it's not perfect, but it's the best checker I've come across.&lt;/p&gt;

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• deutsch?

  SchmiegelDecember 17, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Sorry Ultralingua. Tested the German module and it doesn't work at all. It doesn't even find duplicate words. I hope no one trusts this with his significant correspondence. One star for the well done interface and integration.

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• Limited use ...

  fsvwbugDecember 14, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I used Grammatica to review the writing of a student whose native language is not English. Unfortunately, the program did not perform well. Over six pages of the student's work, the program missed many many errors, and it missed many problems of basic structure. It found no issues with the following passage: "Since sixteenth century, not only by the Catholics, who kept old authority, but also by the Protestants, who encouraged new authority, persecuted and sometimes executed the Anabaptist. The shaping of the Lutheran or Swiss Protestant churches with the support of state and lords brought some followers the sense of the betrayal that compromised the spiritual reform with the secular power." The one passage it flagged as an error -- an agreement fault -- was, in fact, correct.

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• Not very good

  steeleyFebruary 11, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Yet another piece of software that cannot deliver what it claims. It cannot find the simplest of errors. On more complex phrases it gets confused. Consider this faulty phrase: "actually: I does not like fishes. I prefer, to eating beef". The checker acknowleges that "does" is used in error, but that is all. Maybe the French version is better, although it could not identify faults with my basic, poorly composed ramblings!! The demo version has no cut copy paste. It cannot check documents within other programs. It would be better to have a fully working trial period (say 21 days) so these functions can be verified. The company website explains how grammar checkers work, and make reference to how difficult they are to program. Well, if you can't do it let someone else try! There are grammatical mistakes in the text of their website which does not create a good impression. BCDL should increase the price of the software and release something that actually works properly. They could easily corner the market as the limited competition is pretty bad. Anther gross disapointment......

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