I am trying to leverage the AI used in MS Word to ascertain the part of speech of every word in a doc file. That is, for a sentence like: "The cat sat on it.", I would get something along the lines of: "The [wdDeterminer] cat[wdNoun] sat[wdVerb] on[wdPreposition] it[wdPronoun]".

I know that Word must do this internally for its grammar proofing tools to work. My question is: is it possible for a script to access this information.

Please note, I am NOT trying to run spellcheck through VBA (though this will be a trivial part of the solution). Also, I am not interested in the thesaurus module.

There are solutions outside of VBA, such as the python Lemmatization with NLTK, but I was wondering if anyone knew of a purely VBA solution. My investigations so far suggest no, but I'm hoping I've overlooked something.

CodePudding user response：

The Word extensibility model doesn't provide anything for that. The best what you could use are the following properties and methods:

• The Options.CheckGrammarWithSpelling property controls whether Word checks grammar when you check spelling by using the Spelling command (Tools menu).
• The Options.CheckGrammarAsYouType property marks grammatical errors, but to see them on screen, you must set the ShowGrammaticalErrors property to True.
• The Application.CheckGrammar method checks a string for grammatical errors. Returns a Boolean to indicate whether the string contains grammatical errors. True if the string contains no errors.
• The Application.CheckSpelling method checks a string for spelling errors. Returns a Boolean to indicate whether the string contains spelling errors. True if the string has no spelling errors.