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- THELMA THISTLEBLOSSOM Version 5.09 DESCRIBE.DOC
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- Last updated: January 1993
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- Keyword:
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- Grammar, Style, Spelling, and Punctuation Checking
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- Category:
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- Word Processing, Educational
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- Program Name:
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- THELMA THISTLEBLOSSOM
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- Short Summary:
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- THELMA THISTLEBLOSSOM is an easy, yet powerful grammar, style,
- spelling and punctuation checker to create strong, readable, and
- concise documents. You may use a built-in editor to change the
- text.
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- Detailed Summary:
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- THELMA THISTLEBLOSSOM is an easy, yet powerful grammar, style,
- spelling and punctuation checker to create strong, readable, and
- concise documents. You may use a built-in editor to change the
- text.
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- THELMA THISTLEBLOSSOM uses sophisticated parsing and a grammar-based
- dictionary to check each sentence in your document.
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- When THELMA THISTLEBLOSSOM finds a problem, it displays the
- sentence in context, highlights the problem, explains what is
- wrong, and gives suggestions. You may use several convenient
- editing tools to correct the problem.
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- When it finds a grammatical error (such as a split infinitive), a
- stylistic error (such as a commonly misused phrase), or a
- punctuation error (such as a missing comma), THELMA THISTLEBLOSSOM
- suggests alternatives. THELMA THISTLEBLOSSOM permits you to insert
- your choice without losing any WordPerfect formatting codes.
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- You may use a WordPerfect-like editor to fix more complex errors.
- THELMA THISTLEBLOSSOM preserves all WordPerfect formatting codes
- during your editing.
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- THELMA THISTLEBLOSSOM finds such grammatical problems as: improper
- noun/verb agreement, passive voice, misused pronouns, repeated
- words, incorrect superlatives, split infinitives, improper verb
- structure, long sentences, informal words, prepositional phrases,
- capitalization errors, and misspelled words.
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- THELMA THISTLEBLOSSOM finds such punctuation problems as: misplaced
- comma, improper abbreviation, decimal, extraneous space, hyphen,
- incorrect possessive, missing question mark, mixed case word, and
- interchanged punctuation.
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- THELMA THISTLEBLOSSOM uses a database with over 13,000 entries to
- detect: formal, informal, cliche, vague, wordy, repetitive, racist,
- and sexist phrases.
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- THELMA THISTLEBLOSSOM checks your document in a single pass. This
- one-step proofreading means you don't have to waste time running
- different programs to check punctuation, style, grammar, mechanics,
- and spelling. It automatically rechecks any sentence that you
- change.
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- THELMA THISTLEBLOSSOM must have WordPerfect or ASCII files, an IBM
- compatible computer, a hard drive, and DOS 3.0.
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- Registration Information:
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- $29.00. The Thelma manual, Quick Reference Card, A Grammar Manual,
- grammar tutorials, latest version (with no nag screens), one free
- shareware upgrade, 90 days of technical help. For more
- information, refer to the REGISTER.DOC file.
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- Publisher Information:
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- TIMP SOFTWARE is a small, private Utah software company.
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- We believe that the primary purpose of business is service, not
- profit. This idea is fundamental to developing products, producing
- products, and marketing products.
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- We've been producing top quality computer software at reasonable
- prices, continuously, since 1986. Please contact us by mail
- (include a self-addressed stamped envelope) any time you've
- questions, comments, or suggestions.
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- TIMP SOFTWARE 758 East 100 North, Orem Utah 84057-4910 USA
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