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It still isn't clear why anyone uses a product developed by non-native speakers to check their writing. For anyone who knows grammar, Grammarly sometimes makes... interesting... suggestions.
As a non-native speaker I'm surprised to the amount of grammar mistakes native speakers make. Being a native speaker is not a testament to how much of the language you know. And even that being true, it's not like a real human corrects your text, so the creators being native or not is pretty much irrelevant.
at the amount of grammar mistakes
should've used grammarly
They’d’ve gotten it wrong too. Prepositions and postpositions are their own category of linguistic hell, especially in idioms and phrasal verbs.
They'dn't've necessarily gotten it wrong. With a big enough dataset, an ML tool should be pretty accurate, at least in that it will make the same choices as most people have made in their writing.
Apostrophe mistakes aside, no native speaker would stack contractions like this. There’s an upper limit of three words in a single contracted form. It would be “They wouldn’t’ve gotten” or “They’d not’ve gotten.”
ML tools don’t write grammatically correct complex sentences precisely because their training sets contain too many discrepancies. They may learn how to apply prescriptive rules consistently one day, perhaps even one day soon, but this is not that day.
Who says there's an upper limit? You might not be one of those people, but I'm.
Also, that'll teach me to try to write tricky comments while also doing other things. Fixed.
Muphry's Law strikes again.
LOL! How did I not know about this? Thanks!
Well, linguists say it. But you do you, friend.
LOL! Right there with you. If I had a dollar for every time this happens to me…. 😄