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Originally Posted by yournamehere
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Actually, MS Word 2007 identifies "their" as a possible homophone error with a blue squiggly line, and correctly suggests "there" to replace it. However, the rest of the sentence remains unnoticed.
I helped teach writing to 8th graders last year as part of a practicum. Homophone errors were one of the things I emphasized most, precisely because the spellchecker frequently does not catch them. MS Word 2007 does have a homophone error checker, but it does not catch them all.