What is it with MS Word's love of semicolons? People (real writers too) don't use nearly as many semicolons in novels and magazine. Perhaps it is my start-stop-start-stop writing style that prompts the grammar checker to insert this punctuation. Anyone else have this issue?
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Usually I turn off grammar check, because it's invariably wrong and I find all of those squiggly green lines distracting... But in the event that I leave it on, it usually wants to replace all of my uses of "that" with "which" even though it's clearly not what I'm trying to say:
I like things that blow up
...is not the same as...
I like things, which blow up
Stupid paper clip.
Also, it accuses me of using too many sentence fragments... but, as Lisa Simpson would point out, "sentence fragment" is, itself, a sentence fragment.
Must conserve battery power.
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