Grammarly in my opinion is one of the most popular tool and an interesting solution that has a lot of features with being great browser integration for Chrome.
It is designed to provide you with “a better way to write” (their words). It basically finds and then corrects all the grammatical mistakes in a text, gives few vocabulary suggestions, and moreover checks if the text is plagiarismed. Grammarly is a very helpful tool that can help one understand their basic mistakes and help them learn and improve further.
It’s super simple and easy to use. When Grammarly notices that you have a typing or grammatical error, it will notify you so you can make the appropriate changes. It also helps you find synonyms for words that perhaps you’ve already used several times in your post. This is nice time-saver since you won’t have to go to another website (or pull out your thesaurus) to find the exact word you’re looking for. There are also other ways Grammarly can help you to become a better writer:
- Social Media: Grammarly proofs your social media status updates (e.g., Twitter and LinkedIn).
- Gmail: Use Grammarly to check the quality of your e-mails before you hit the send button.
- Plagiarism: Upload a file or copy and paste text in Grammarly to check for verbatim content against over eight billion web pages.
- Citations: Grammarly will automatically create citations in several styles (MLA, APA, and Chicago).
- Instantly find and correct over 250 types of grammar mistakes.
- Contextual spellchecker.
- It improves word choice with providing one with various vocabulary suggestions.
- Advanced proofreading. It looks if there is repetition of words.
- MS Word and MS Outlook plugins available.
- Google Chrome plugin available.
- It is useful in detecting plagiarism by checking the text against over eight billion web pages.
(1) You can learn from it and make fewer mistakes next time
As we know by now, Grammarly is a tool mainly for checking your grammar, something that the tools like Word and Scrivener already do. One feature of Grammarly that makes it different from other tools is that it tells us why it's making the suggestion. This helps the writer to know where and why he/she went wrong and learn from it.
(2) Discover the words you use too often
Each writer have some words in their mind that they use too often/frequently. And most of the times, people are so close to the manuscript that they've read it so many times but they can't see this. Grammarly allows one to see definitions of words with their synonyms if someone wants to change the word that they're using.
(3) Learn to break up sentences
‘Shorter sentences characterize bestsellers’. This is indicated by the data analysis of bestselling books. But everyone knows how hard this can be to do in practice. Grammarly gives feedback on the length of sentences when it detects long or run-on sentences.
(4) Helps the text to get perfection and accuracy
We all know editors and proof-readers give in a lot of time to read every script with concentration and correct all the grammatical mistakes present in the text. However, if Grammarly is used to write scripts, they will be clean (i.e. error-free) and the editors will be able to save on time.
(5) Checks on plagiarism
Grammarly compares your text with over 8 billion web pages, so that you can know if there is any duplication. In my opinion, this is one of the best features provided by Grammarly.
(6) Provides plug-in feature
Grammarly provides a free plug-in for Chrome or Safari. This plug-in looks after your posts on social media sites like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, ensuring that you don't make any grammatical errors.
In the attached pictures/ examples, you can see how Grammarly is an effective tool for daily use and helps in various ways to improve your writing and give you confidence.
Therefore, I would really suggest everyone to use tools like Grammarly and improve their vocabulary and writing.
