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2. Grammar checker - Wikipedia

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   A grammar checker, in computing terms, is a program, or part of a program, that attempts to verify written text for grammatical correctness. Grammar checkers are most often implemented as a feature of a larger program, such as a word processor, but are also available as a stand-alone application that can be activated from within programs that ...

3. Sentence spacing - Wikipedia

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   Sentence spacing concerns how spaces are inserted between sentences in typeset text and is a matter of typographical convention. [1] Since the introduction of movable-type printing in Europe, various sentence spacing conventions have been used in languages with a Latin alphabet. [2] These include a normal word space (as between the words in a ...

4. Sentence spacing in language and style guides - Wikipedia

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   In the 1990s, style guides reverted to recommending a single-space between sentences. However, instead of a slightly larger sentence space, style guides simply indicated a standard word space. This is now the convention for publishers. Style guides are important to writers since "virtually all professional editors work closely with one of them ...

5. Punctuation - Wikipedia

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   Punctuation includes space between words and the other, historically or currently used, signs. By the 19th century, the punctuation marks were used hierarchically in terms of their weight. [3] Six marks, proposed in 1966 by the French author Hervé Bazin, could be seen as predecessors of emoticons and emojis.

6. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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   List of proofreader's marks. This article is a list of standard proofreader's marks used to indicate and correct problems in a text. Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols. These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin ...

7. Space (punctuation) - Wikipedia

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   Space (punctuation) In writing, a space ( ) is a blank area that separates words, sentences, syllables (in syllabification) and other written or printed glyphs (characters). Conventions for spacing vary among languages, and in some languages the spacing rules are complex. [citation needed] Inter-word spaces ease the reader's task of identifying ...