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Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by t

Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t. – Richard Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. “The Mudge,” from “Th

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