I've been looking for a really good open source program that not only checks for typos, but can also, to some extend, point out problems with grammar. Preferably, it would be able to understand which words to expect in different contexts.<p>I've tried both aspell and hunspell (which seems to be <i>widely</i> used) with an 11k en_US affix dictionary, but none of them seem to have _any_ problems with the following sentence (taken from Wikipedia, IIRC):<p><pre><code> Their coming too sea if its reel.
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I mean, for reports you'd naturally spend some time proof-reading, but as I'm not a native English speaker, it's very easy for me to miss glaring mistakes besides pure typos. I'd love to use something from the command line to check my TeX-files.<p>What do people here at HN use?
Can't help with the question, but I have to ask: you're not a native english speaker?? You have zero grammar problems in this post (and only one spelling error: extend for extent). Where are you from? What would you consider your primary languages, and why don't you include english? Unless you had someone write your comment for you, I wouldn't worry about this at all.
I've tried out <a href="https://www.grammarly.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.grammarly.com/</a>, but I didn't find its suggestions helpful, and often it had no suggestions. The latter was disappointing because I know I'm not that skilled in grammar.