Style Checker?
Faulty coordination no
Faulty
subordination no
Parallel
construction no
Mixed constructions
no
Missing words
no (unless a verb)
Dangling modifiers
no
Shifts person
no
tense
no
mood
no
voice
no
Passives
yes (but be critical)
Sentence variety
no
Wordiness some
common offenders Jargon
sometimes
Slang
overconservative
Sexist language overconservative
Fragments about 50%, some
false positives
Comma faults
about 40%, many false positives
Subject/verb agreement
about 70%, some false positives
Pronoun/antecedent agreement
no
Pronoun case
good
who/whom
good
adjective/adverb confusion uneven
double comparison good
double
negatives good
comparison
of absolutes, e.g. "more unique" good
wrong verb forms
about 33%
use of commas
unreliable
semicolons
sometimes
colons
no
apostrophes good in
contractions, iffy on possessives
quotation marks good on closing quotes
question
marks good for split-
exclamation marks
no
Spelling
good
Confusables, e.g. "lie/lay"
some help
Capitals some
help