Word Processor Grammar Checkers Don't Work Write

In the Hartford Courant, Mark McFadden explains. An excerpt:

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Microsoft Word has trouble with capital letters. For instance, in the sentence "She works as a Teacher at a small University in Iowa," neither Teacher nor University should be capitalized. Yet when this sentence appears in a Word document and when the user clicks on the Spelling & Grammar icon, the "Spelling and Grammar check is complete" message appears again. In Google Docs, after typing the same sentence and running the spelling and grammar checker, a dialogue box appears with the caption: Document looks good. For students, these two messages send the entirely wrong message; many students misinterpret the content of these dialogue boxes to mean they've written an error-free essay. And then they complain about it when their instructor marks it wrong.