Grammar/Educational Mode

roovyshapiro commented 5 years ago

Buggify is just a few functions short of being a great tool for generating grammar/spelling errors. Instead of causing bugs to appear in programs, Buggify could be adapted to use for the purpose of learning to proof read and edit regular essays/paragraphs. Imagine a teacher using the same file but generating 50 unique worksheets/exams for all the students with their own unique answer key. It would make cheating far more difficult.

Some example grammar bugs:

remove "." from the end of the sentence and make the next word lowercase to create run on sentences.
replacing a with an, were with was, its with it's
switching around two words
taking out "ing" from words
removing commas, or adding too many commas
switching around they're, their, there
I vs me some good examples here: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/common-grammar-mistakes-list

If we decide to do this, we'll probably have to split it up into a few sub-issues. This is mainly for the overview/discussion.

QuantumNovice commented 5 years ago

I'd like to work on this in separate module.

roovyshapiro commented 5 years ago

Hi @QuantumNovice! Thank you for your interest in this project!

Sorry the late reply. What did you have in mind? Can you clarify what you mean?

QuantumNovice commented 5 years ago

I can work on this module to create mistakes in english texts.

Randomly replacing common misconceptions in grammar as you mentioned .
Using NLTK to change confusing adverbs into adjectives. Like instead of adverbs modifying adjectives introduce adjectives modifying adjectives. And things in this list
- https://www.espressoenglish.net/confusing-words-adjectives-and-adverbs/
- https://authority.pub/common-grammar-mistakes/
Replacing words with their homophones.

roovyshapiro / Buggify

Grammar/Educational Mode #11