Auto-correct spelling while texting

I had an HTC Incredible 2 for 2.5 years and it always auto corrected my spelling in text messages, which I just loved.
Now that I have my new Samsung Galaxy S4, it doesn't do that. It suggests spellings, but doesn't change anything. I'm so used to auto-correct that I keep sending texts that have misspelled words and it's driving me NUTS!!
I absolutely LOVE the S4's keyboard with the numbers on top (though I HATE that it doesn't have a comma on the front screen) and don't want to use another app that doesn't have that type of keyboard.
Any suggestions on how to make it auto-correct?? I can't find anything in settings regarding auto-correct.
Thank you

Yes, my predictive text is toggled On, and I get suggested words and I can choose them, but my phone never fixes typos, ever. My Incredible 2 just automatically corrected typos and I expected that with my new S4.
What a pain in the butt not to have a comma on the keyboard, but, yes, I found how to insert it with the long press. I'm not a kid and I like to send texts as if I were speaking with punctuation and whole words. All my friends, who are older as I am, like to do the same.
I've tried most of the keyboards in the Play Store, and 99% of them do not have the numbers at the top, which is a great feature.
I was also chatting with Samsung about it and they said they left out auto-correct. Talk about going back into the dark ages!!

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