Editing Grammar checker (section)

==Criticism==
Grammar checkers are considered as a type of [[foreign language writing aid]] which non-native speakers can use to proofread their writings as such programs endeavor to identify syntactical errors.<ref name=Bustamante>{{Cite journal|url=http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1000000/992661/p175-bustamante.pdf|doi = 10.3115/992628.992661|title = GramCheck: A grammar and style checker|series = Coling '96|date = 5 August 1996|pages = 175–181|bibcode = 1996cmp.lg....7001R|last1 = Ramírez Bustamante|first1 = Flora|last2 = Sánchez León|first2 = Fernando|arxiv = cmp-lg/9607001|s2cid = 12829285}}</ref> However, as with other computerized writing aids such as [[spell checker]]s, popular grammar checkers are often criticized when they fail to spot errors and incorrectly flag correct text as erroneous.  The linguist [[Geoffrey K. Pullum]] argued in 2007 that they were generally so inaccurate as to do more harm than good: "for the most part, accepting the advice of a computer grammar checker on your prose will make it '''much''' worse, sometimes hilariously incoherent."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005061.html |author=Geoffrey K. Pullum |date=October 26, 2007 |title=Monkeys will check your grammar |publisher=Language Log |access-date=8 March 2010}}</ref>