Being a writer myself, I know how errors creep inside text.
You may not necessarily write bad grammar, but the desire to accomplish a specific
deadline, or perhaps, a slip in concentration, can make grammatical errors slip through. It will certainly affect the content you create.
That was something, I encountered, often. And then I saw
this advertisement about grammarly. At first, the ad clipping didn’t impress
me. I gave a miss. But then, I would come across banner and the text ads often
during my online browsing. During one such session, I decided to click through
the ad, didn’t read too much. There was something that struck me, though, and
during my third visit to the site, I lapped on to the idea of a free trial.
Pros
Grammarly has certainly reduced my errors. It’s hard to understand
what they have inside the software, but it really works. The software points
out mistakes in a classified manner. To give you an idea of what it does- look
at this image –
It lays down every mistake you commit. It starts right from
the spelling mistakes. The software points out spelling mistakes if it’s there
in the content. The grammarly software searches the text and points out
grammatical errors in a perfectly organized manner. Any mistake in the usage of
articles or incorrect use of a preposition is taken care of. The software
points out incorrect use of adjectives and adverbs, and many more grammatical
errors.
It also points out punctuation errors. It’s not only about
pointing grammatical errors, but in the process also guides you to correct
those errors with suggestions. When you finish grammatical restructuring, the
software then allows you to enhance content. By enhancement, I mean using appropriate
words within the sentence, which brings better style into the content.
What strikes me most is the ease by which the software
allows the user to change or restructure the content. I particularly, love the
enhancement feature, simply because the choice is with you, whether to augment
a particular word, or a phrase, or ignore it. If, at any point of time, you
believe that the word you have in the content is much better than the given
options, ignore the enhanced options, and move to the new sentence. That’s
what makes grammarly more appealing. It can be used both as a word and a sentence
checker.
The most striking
feature
You don’t have to open the Grammarly website, copy and paste text
every time you want to review content. The software can be integrated into
Microsoft word, and you can perform grammar check with the click of a mouse, right
on your Microsoft word document page, which is perhaps, the best feature. It
makes the check so easy because you don’t have to waste any time doing that. To
understand the mechanism of grammarly software on MS word page, look at this
image –
You can also perform analysis according to the content you
have. There are 6 categories to perform
check, starting with general, business, academic, technical, creative and casual.
For instance, if you are writing an academic assignment, use academic option
when you do grammar check.
Finally, the best for me is I don’t have to log in every
time I use grammarly on my laptop. Once I log in, I am logging in forever,
unless I log off, which means that even if I don’t work for a week, and open my
laptop after a week, I am still in the log in mode. It saves precious time.
Now the real question
is – “Does the Pros really benefit you?”
You can talk a lot about benefits, but if those benefits don’t
really work, then I don’t think it’s worth talking about. I use the software
myself, and I can tell for sure, it works for me. And if it works for me, then I
am pretty sure, it will work for everyone else because my grammar is sometimes
quite shocking, even for me to understand what I write.
Cons
It’s hard for me to find any drawbacks with Grammarly, but I
think, the software can help users more with the use of tenses.
The final verdict (10/10)
You should be trying Grammarly, and I am convinced, it will not disappoint you.
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