Quote Originally Posted by Rabbit1
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got your ---is possive and should have been you're

the word night -lite---should have been night-light

the word "goooood" should have been good ----

"bullseye should have been bulls-eye

No way you can ---is a negitive and a positive mix--you can't or you can not ---

matress is misspelled

All in all the house ---should have been the entire house

And as long as their parents could remember.--is a fragmented sentence

these errors were caught by Spell and grammar check on MS Word--it is a useful writers tool ---it does not catch them all but 99% of them will be caught

Well see here's the thing. I used the same grammer and spell check you did and here's how I justified my words. Tell me if you agree or not.

Night-lite - If you go to the local store and go to buy a night-light most of the packages are spelled night-lite. Something the reader will identify with.

Got your -If I change it to you're the sentence reads:Got you're night-lite on and your covers pulled up? But that means it would be Got you are night-lite on and your covers pulled up? That doesn't make any sense.

Goooood - This was done on purpose. Ghost is talking to an audience and has decided to drawl this word out for effect.

Bullseye - Yep, the program wanted me to change it, but I looked it up in three different web dictionaries and they had it like I did.

No way you can - It's a kid talking. Again the program told me to change it, but I ignored that in favor of how kids actually talk.

Matress is mispelled. - Yep.

All in all the house - When you push the change button in word the sentence reads: All in the entire house was the best place in the town of Greensville for the kids to have fun. Again that doesn't make sense. What I should have done was add a comma after the second all. I did miss that when I proofed. If you add the comma word likes it.

And as long as their parents could remember - Yes it's a fragment, but in my opinion it's a needed fragment with the awkward first sentence. That sentence would probably change in a revision because the first sentence in that paragraph is just bad.

I'm not knocking word here because I use it myself all the time, but sometimes it picks up things that don't need to be corrected. What do you think?