With the fast approaching 15th September deadline for ISB Round 1 applications, we at thinkisb.com have been extremely busy guiding a huge number of aspirants. We observed that due to a multitude of reasons, many instances were found where spelling or grammar mistakes passed unnoticed by the aspirant's eye in his/her application drafts. Our team thus prepared a good list of online grammar and spelling check tools available on the internet that aspirants can use to their rescue:
Note: Do not rely on MS-Word Spelling and Grammar check [Shortcut: Pressing F7 Key] only
(Read more about it here: http://www.uwec.edu/help/Word07/grmrchck.htm)
Tools on the internet:
- Spellchecker.net lets you copy and paste text into an online tool to quickly identify spelling and grammar errors. An online thesaurus is also available for your convenience.
- Language Tool free open source grammar checker to identify the most common grammatical mistakes in text. (Exact Link: http://community.languagetool.org/ )
Language errors in English are recognized but this does not contain a spell checking program.
- Grammar Slammer : (Download Link: http://www.englishplus.com/pub/gschkr42.zip )
Uses a taskbar and integrated search to help identify errors in a document and suggest corrected text. You can download a free 21 day trial of this program.
- AbiWord is a free open source word processing program that includes a grammar checker. It is supported on all of the most common operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS X (PowerPC), and Microsoft Windows. The interface is similar to Microsoft Word, making this program very easy to use.
