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And besides typos, some of which have haunted my text past many readers, there are also things that you (the writer) may never pick up. My recent thread about "lounge" was a surprising revelation to me. I've also had various more esoteric grammatical items detected by a very kind reader who knows more of these things than I do. I do reserve the right to ignore some of these items, sometimes how it reads is more important to me than being strictly correct - I think prose in fiction is allowed to be a little poetic (while avoiding clichés, or being excessively trite or obscure) - but a knowledgeable reviewer/editor can help you pick the places where this is acceptable.
Having the computer read aloud to me has been very helpful, not only with doubled, swapped or wrong words, but also highlighting sentences that run on too long for clarity, and sometimes a lack of logical flow of a paragraph will stand out this way too.
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