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Markov and Me

Markov and Me

by Joseph Malik | Jul 11, 2016 | Writing Craft

MS Office updated just now. And Word’s grammar checker got even stupider. Now the subject-verb agreement is all jacked up: if you insert a negative adverb, it modifies the verb to correlate with a third-person subject pronoun. This means that auto-correct turns...

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