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In computing, a spell checker (or spell check) is an application program that flags words in a document that may not be spelled correctly.

Spell checkers may be stand-alone, capable of operating on a block of text, or as part of a larger application, such as a word processor, email client, electronic dictionary, or search engine.

A grammar checker, in computing terms, is a program, or part of a program, that attempts to verify written text for grammatical correctness.

Grammar checkers are most often implemented as a feature of a larger program, such as a word processor, but are also available as a stand-alone application that can be activated from within programs that work with editable text.

Punctuation is the use of spacing, conventional signs, and certain typographical devices as aids to the understanding and the correct reading, both silently and aloud, of handwritten and printed texts.

Another description is: "The practice, action, or system of inserting points or other small marks into texts, in order to aid interpretation; division of text into sentences, clauses, etc., by means of such marks.".

Writing is a medium of human communication that represents language and emotion through the inscription or recording of signs and symbols.

In most languages, writing is a complement to speech or spoken language.

Writing is not a language but a form of technology that developed as tools developed with human society.

Within a language system, writing relies on many of the same structures as speech, such as vocabulary, grammar and semantics, with the added dependency of a system of signs or symbols.

The result of writing is generally called text, and the recipient of text is called a reader.

Motivations for writing include publication, storytelling, correspondence and diary.

Writing has been instrumental in keeping history, maintaining culture, dissemination of knowledge through the media and the formation of legal systems.

In non-functional linguistics, a sentence is a textual unit consisting of one or more words that are grammatically linked.

In functional linguistics, a sentence is a unit of written texts delimited by graphological features such as upper case letters and markers such as periods, question marks, and exclamation marks.

This notion opposes that of the curve, which is delimited by phonologic features such as pitch and loudness and markers such as pauses.

This notion also opposes a clause, which is a sequence of words that represents some process going on throughout time.

This entry is mainly about sentence in its non-functional sense, though much work in functional linguistics is indirectly cited or considered such as the categories of Speech Act Theory.