[mso] Re: Edit the Grammar checker
- From: "David Smart" <smartware@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 13:06:17 +1100
> In Australian English the word staff means "The people who work for an
> organisation." And it is quite acceptable - even normal - to treat it as a
> plural, like the word people
Not the English that I was taught (in Canberra, in the '50s). :-)
To me "... staff contact ..." would imply the people acting as individuals -
i.e. lots of contacts. "... staff contacts ..." would imply one contact
from a member of the staff (acting as a group, with any of the staff able to
make the contact, but only one member per contact time).
Actually, I would probably omit the word "staff" entirely from the sentence.
It's the training organisation that is doing the contacting - the staff is
simply the mechanism used.
Regards, Dave S
PS No idea whether you can edit the grammar-checker rules. Sorry.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Grugeon" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 12:10 PM
Subject: [mso] Edit the Grammar checker
> Hi all
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> Does anyone know how to edit the rules in the grammar checker in word?
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> Mine insists that
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> training organisation staff contact employers regularly
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> should be
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> training organisation staff contacts employers regularly
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> In Australian English the word staff means "The people who work for an
> organisation." And it is quite acceptable - even normal - to treat it as a
> plural, like the word people
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> Word has no problem with
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> training organisation people contact employers regularly
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> Is there any way I can change the definition of the word "staff" in the
> grammar checker? I do not want to scrap the number agreement rule
> completely, just correct its error permanently.
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> Best Regards
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> David Grugeon
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> Grugeon Consulting
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> (07) 3263 7786
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