It’s probably becuase this is an incomplete sentence. If it were “I have worked…” you’d likely be fine (although of course that isn’t what you want for a resume).
What if you made this a bulleted list (I assume there are other points in parallel to it) and changed them to noun phrases – “Extensive work at high schools and with university students…”
I get green underlines from MS Word a lot, for perfectly good sentences. This of course leads to sime non-native speakers of English thinking that something is wrong with the sentence, and I have to explain that MS Word’s grammar check is often wrong.
It likes to underline “key” in “This was key in my decision to…” or “a sensitivity” in “She has a sensitivity for artistic form”.
You can keep it as a word document but get rid of the green line by going to spelling/grammar on the tools menu and telling it to ignore the rule. Behold, the green line is gone. Mr Gates is silenced.
My carefully crafted piece of marketing copy is going to land on the screen of someone who thinks they need an English teacher, probably for their company. He/she is unlikely to have turned Bill’s text-bollockser off, and so will see the green anyway.
Until I’m all proof-read and pdf’d, I’m attaching the following line at the bottom:
Note: I know better than MS Word. Please ignore any red or green lines appearing on this document!
[quote=“tmwc”]My carefully crafted piece of marketing copy is going to land on the screen of someone who thinks they need an English teacher, probably for their company. He/she is unlikely to have turned Bill’s text-bollockser off, and so will see the green anyway.[/quote]Is that the way it works? I thought that the default viewing settings for documents were the ones applied at the same it was saved. For example, I sent a document to someone with the “show markup” option selected so there were a bunch of red lines and text boxes pointing out where I’d edited stuff. When she viewed it, the markup option was still on.