It would be fascinating to know, for example, whether the dictates of the grammar checkers built into modern word processors have had a measurable impact on literary prose.
A great example of this is copy and paste, which can be found in the edit dropdown menu of word processors, and is also triggered with keyboard shortcuts.
Here we have an example where the word processor is looking at an English sentence, and suggesting that the grammar is not correct, and showing exactly how the grammer might be fixes.
Elkin extolled his renewed appreciation for plot after acquiring a word processor in 1979: " Plots have become very interesting to me, " he told an interviewer at the time.