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I am writing a recommendation letter.Why in the following sentence word underlines it as an error without proving an explanation?What it the correct form?

''The excellent understanding and reasoning Peter consistently exhibited impressed me immediately.''

DMW · Accepted Answer

Please don't take Word's underlinings too literally. They're not very reliable. There are plenty of ungrammatical sentences that Word will fail to underline, and plenty of perfectly fine sentences that Word will underline.

In this case, your grammar is perfect. For me, there's a little bit of confusion over the adverbs you've chosen. If Peter did something consistently, then he did so over a period of time. It seems a bit incongruous to then say immediately for your reaction to what he did. You would only really say immediately if you were describing a one-off event. Since you're talking about Peter's long term record of excellent understanding and reasoning, I don't think immediately is an appropriate adverb.

Enoon · Answer

I'll bet it saw "understanding and reasoning" as adjectives and didn't find a direct object for "Peter exhibited". Ignore Word. You are approximately a trillion times smarter than it.

Untilte · Answer

Thanks.I am actually referring to his performance in my class and the difficulty of level so it requires a well prepared student. Also if you do not mind I would to ask if these two frases are correct(again world erros!)

''Peter's job was compiling, analyzing, and reporting data to explain economic phenomena and forecast market trends, seeking to determine the implications of their findings and forecasting change and then preparing points of view used in forecasting trends and formulating economic policy''

and

The senior colleagues working with Peter commented favorably about working with Peter
Here word says no article needed so according to word it should be '' Senior colleagues working with Peter commented favorably about working with Peter'' I simply don't get it.I think the article is needed because the frase starts after a full stop.

Enoon · Answer

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untilte'Peter's job was compiling, analyzing, and reporting data to explain economic phenomena and forecast market trends, seeking to determine the implications of their findings and forecasting change and then preparing points of view used in forecasting trends and formulating economic policy''

What was Word's problem with that? It is correct enough, but I would recommend a few changes.

''Peter's job was to compile, analyze, and report data to explain economic phenomena and to forecast market trends, seeking to determine the implications of the findings and to forecast change, and then to prepare points of view used in forecasting trends and in formulating economic policy.''

untilteThe senior colleagues working with Peter commented favorably about working with PeterHere word says no article needed so according to word it should be '' Senior colleagues working with Peter commented favorably about working with Peter'' I simply don't get it.I think the article is needed because the frase starts after a full stop.

Without the article, it means that not all commented favorably, equivalent to "Some senior colleagues working with Peter ...."

Untilte · Answer

Thank you much for your response. I have a last sentence again .Word has a problem with the following sentences
Everything is underlined.

I teamed Peter with a senior colleague to work on two projects. The first one involving assessing the choice of policy instruments for crisis management and prevention, and assessing whether central banks should target inflation and asset prices to maintain financial and output stability during crises. The second project included researching, analyzing and interpreting information about economic performance, tax, and political decisions according to both national and international factors, and data analysis

Untilte · Answer

I miss-typed it

I teamed Peter with a senior colleague to work on two projects. The first one involving assessing the choice of policy instruments for crisis management and prevention, and assessing whether central banks should target inflation and asset prices to maintain financial and output stability during crises. The second project included researching, analyzing and interpreting information about economic performance, tax, and political decisions according to both national and international factors, and data analysis

Enoon · Answer

Word does win a few. Your second sentence is not a sentence. There are two ways to fix it:

on two projects, the first one involving assessing ....

on two projects. The first one involved assessing ....

Untilte · Answer

Thanks!!!!

DMW · Answer

Your sentence

The senior colleagues working with Peter commented favorably about working with Peter

sounds a little awkward to me. I don't know whether it's because of the repetition of "working with Peter", or whether talking about "colleagues working with Peter" seems redundant - if they're his colleagues, then they must be working with him. I would have written something like this.

Peter's senior colleagues commented favourably about working with him.

Or if you want to specify that it's only some of his senior colleagues, not all, you can just say this.

Some of Peter's senior colleagues commented favourably about working with him.

I think this is clearer than worrying about the shades of meaning that you get out of including or omitting "the" from the sentence that you currently have.

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