Example: They don’t have a discussion board, the website isn’t big enough for one yet.

Targets the use of a semicolon instead of a comma in two related but independent clauses that are not joined by a coordinating conjunction such as “and” or “but.” Here are the options that seem most useful to me: Punctuation Semicolon Use What, then, should you have Word’s grammar checker check? Anything that you think would be easy to overlook while editing. All such corrections can and should be automated. Examples include checking for punctuation marks preceded by a space, opening parentheses followed by a space, and double spaces between words and sentences. If something can be fixed automatically, there’s no need to have Word check it and flag it to do so would just mean more work, because you’d have to consider and manually change each flagged item.

The grammar checker also flags many things that editors would be better off fixing with Word’s Find and Replace feature or FileCleaner in Editor’s ToolKit Plus 2014.

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