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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> If it would work like flyspell, and only highlight things it doesn't
> like, it wouldn't be that obtrusive.  Some searching on the topic
> yields:
>
> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
> http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/
>
> Which contain many simple things to keep in mind, some of them could
> probably be identified automatically.  I think I'll start on a
> flygrammar that highlights a vs an mistakes, which seems simple enough
> to start with, although perhaps not that useful.  Later it could be
> extended to match other common things those web pages mention, and
> even offer text discussing the mistake for the more complicated
> issues.

I think GNU Style & Diction is something like this:

,----[ http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html ]
|
|  Diction and style are two old standard UNIX commands. Diction
|  identifies wordy and commonly misused phrases. Style analyses surface
|  characteristics of a document, including sentence length and other
|  readability measures.
`----

I believe there's an Emacs interface for it somewhere.