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all alone , all-alone MS-word

 
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My friend showed it. He typed all-alone, MS word showed grammatical error (green line). He right clicked and chaged it to all alone as suggested by MS-word.
MS Word still showing green line. Again he right clicked and this time it was showing all-alone
 
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Strange. I couldnt get this to work in Word 2000
What version of Word was your friend using?
 
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Originally posted by Mark Fletcher:
What version of Word was your friend using?


right now he has left for the day tomorrow I will give you detail. The OS is NT workstation.
 
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thats pretty funny. I typed "The man was all-alone." in 97 and it recommended all alone. i said ok change it and it said no change that to all-alone.
[ December 05, 2002: Message edited by: Randall Twede ]
 
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By typing
The man was all-alone.
The man was all alone.
you can see that each version gets flagged independently of the other. Each recommends the other version as the improvement. So nobody's cross-checked that recommended improvements don't fail some other test.
Deep in the settings deselect "Hyphenated and compound words" and the problem goes away.
 
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By the way, what means "all-alone"?
 
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Originally posted by Mark Fletcher:
What version of Word was your friend using?[/QB]


Reread the post, Mark. He was using "MS word" (or was it "MS-word")?
(Please don't make me use any smileys.)
(Oh, what the heck: :roll: )
 
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By the way, what means "all-alone"?
Pretty much the same as "alone", but with a little more emphasis. To be fair, the hyphenated form here just looks wrong to me. But I suppose it may be acceptable to others somewhere.
 
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Right. I tried to come up with a decent sentence that used the hyphenated version and was not very successful.
Unless you admit further compounding:
What's this all-alone-in-your-apartment-eating-aspirin business about?
(But that could be seen as a shameless attempt at convergence.)
 
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Indeed, shameless.
 
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Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
By the way, what means "all-alone"?
Pretty much the same as "alone", but with a little more emphasis. To be fair, the hyphenated form here just looks wrong to me. But I suppose it may be acceptable to others somewhere.


is that the saem as little kids saying:
"all awone"?
 
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I totally agree with michael. the hyphen just looks totally wrong unless it part of something larger like his example.
 
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I dont see any difference in "all-alone" and all alone. But I will prefer all-alone coz it makes it look like one single word, which I want it to be.
Studied british english, using US english. So much confusion
 
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hi Ravish,
i would say-
if u tried to studied British english using US english then its like u tried to study Solaris OS using Windows
regards
maulin
 
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