Editor Output Display Examples

Here is a made-up text with problems that are not caught by Word 2007 or WordPerfect 2005:

    I am a friend of theirs’.  We caught less fish today then yesterday.  Joe
    writes in his dairy every day.


Here are Editor's DRAFT and USAGE-analysis outputs.  You can display Editor output on screen or print and use it for marking changes.

    DRAFT Output

        <1>I am a friend of theirs’.  <2>We caught less fish today then

        yesterday.  <3>Joe writes in his dairy every day.


    USAGE Output

        <1> theirs’
           POSSESSIVE MISTAKE: theirs [P]

        <2> less fish
           POSSIBLE POOR USAGE; use “fewer” for countable items [U]

        <2> less fish today then
          HOMONYM ERROR: less . . . than? [H]

        <3> writes . . . dairy
          EXPRESSION COMMONLY MISSPELLED; diary? [m]

        <3> every day
          POSSIBLE WORDY PHRASE; daily? [W]


The bracketed letters at the ends of USAGE comments, when clicked or typed, bring up Reference screens describing and illustrating the problems.  You can see Editor's Reference screen m, describing the third USAGE comment above, by clicking the reference-screen link on our How page.

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