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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

'not all of the group' or 'not the entire group'

As in 'not all of the group was able to...' or 'not the entire group was able to...'
I thought the former but Microsoft Word is telling me the latter.
  

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Do you mean Microsoft Office, specifically Word? Well, it is not human, so it misinterprets things badly sometimes. Take what it suggests to you as just a suggestion.

  • Do you mean Microsoft Office, specifically Word?
  • Well, it is not human, so it misinterprets things badly sometimes.
  • Take what it suggests to you as just a suggestion.
  • Take it into consideration because it could be right.
  • But it could be wrong.
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Do you mean Microsoft Office, specifically Word? Well, it is not human, so it misinterprets things badly sometimes. Take what it suggests to you as just a suggestion. Take it into consideration because it could be right. But it could be wrong. You have to use your own judgment.

Word will flag passive sentences so you can consider if the sentence would be better if it were active.
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