Alpha Readers Forum quick scan for grammatic error..

I think, as I tend to pass over simple errors in my first proof read, that their is something I can do to easily scan for them.

It is a little funny, in your first sentence you wrote "that their is something" instead of there, in a note about mistakes like that.

You would want to add the other they're to that list

Teh instead of the often pops up, although autocorrect usually fixes that mistake

The to, too, and two syndrome

the missing comma, or in some cases too many commas

I find grammar check on my Word does not catch a lot of mistakes, but it gets all cranky when I have an incomplete sentence or what it considers a fragment. Dude, chill, it is in quotation marks, that is how people talk sometimes.

I don't know how to dial up the grammar settings, it would be nice if you could tune it up or down.

Good luck in your quest, looking forward to the answers others post.

That is funny. I tend to make these mistakes quite often. I was never the star student of spelling and english rules. I speak well but it doesn't translate the same way to the page. Between disturbingly sloppy handwriting and horrific mispellings, my teachers must have thought I was bound to fail. Lucky for me, technology is saving me at least in some of these areas.

I hear grammarly has a program - but I don't know if that is free or not.

I thought I found an open source grammar checker that held promise, downloaded the desktop version, it is a java based program, but I have not been able to get it to run so far. They do have an online spot on their page I will experiment with.

In researching this, it appears there is no market for a grammar checker as Micro$loth gives their insipid version away for free in Word.

I shall return, with news, be it good or bad.

C. Rose mentioned Grammarly, it installs as a Word extension. The tools look attractive, and there is a 7 day free trial. It is a subscription service, $30 per month. As that is about what I pay for phone services, I won't be subscribing to this.
There is a free browser extension, Grammarly Lite, but the tools appear to be the same as what is in Word now, no advanced grammar checking is offered.

I don't have a solution for you, but wanted to take a second to say not to worry about grammar as you're writing. Worrying about spelling/grammar will drop you out of the flow.