Spell Check and Proofreading not working

When typing, spell check doesn't underline words that are spelled incorrectiy. And proofreading doesn't underline grammaticaly incorrect things. I've typed words incorrectly to see if it would underline, and it doesn't. When i actually open the spell check window, it still doesn't say anything is wrong. This is a problem across my whole Mac, so it might be something with the OS. As im typing this when i spell "incorectly" it doesn't change it to "incorrectly". And help/suggestions?

I am not sure if you all are following this post anymore, but in case you are, here is a solution.
With the Inspector open:
Select All (the entire document)
Within Inspector click: TEXT > MORE
About 3/4 down the Inspector window should be "Language." Change the Language to English (or whatever you need). You may have to change everything to "None" first and then back to English. Somehtimes this Language feature can get changed accidentally if you copy and paste from another document, particually MS Word or GoogleDocs. It does not always happen, but sometimes it does. This should fix your problems.

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