Hm, maybe I require too much and today’s artificial intelligence is not intelligent enough for this?īut again, Grammarly still successfully corrected me in many other simple cases that I didn’t mention here (like missing -s in the verb’s ending and etc). For example, it overlooked missing “had” in “I did not know that he had lived in NYC before the war” and some mistakes in “Had you call ed me, I would have come”. I also tried to test it on some errors related to the sequence of tenses and conditional sentences, but it seemed that that Grammarly couldn’t handle those grammar errors too. Of course, in some cases “the Edinburgh” may not be a mistake, but I’d prefer Grammarly to pay my attention to it. In this test, Grammarly correctly pointed to missing definite article before the mountain name, but let “the” before a city name go unnoticed. Let’s now see how the grammar checker deals with articles: Here Grammarly correctly found the misuse of plural “are” with “each”, but overlooked using “everybody” pronoun with verbs “have” and “are”, that should be singular verbs “has” and “is” correspondingly. That’s excellent and helpful, but let’s see what about some slightly complicated cases: In other words, Grammarly is able to find the following blunders: This feature “checks text for subject-verb agreement, misused articles, consistent verb forms and tenses and many more grammar rules”. So definitely it makes writing more simple and comfortable. Actually, while I was writing this text it did pointed me to some simple but unfortunate misprints. Without Grammarly, I could miss those typos even if I skimmed over the text again. You still need to re-read your texts even if Grammarly says they’re ok.īut don’t think that Grammarly is useless in this regard. It’s not a cure-all against your carelessness. I’d say that though Grammarly may greatly help you to improve the quality of your texts, you should not trust it blindly. Ok, let’s draw a bottom line under contextual spelling tests here. As far as I know there is no such noun as “late”, so how Grammarly suggests using it after “the”?īy the way, when I was writing the previous sentence I made a typo “ But it is interesting here that thought Grammarly felt that it is something wrong…“, but to my chagrin, Grammarly was silent about it. The similar situation arose with misspelled word “light”:īut it is interesting here that though Grammarly felt that it is something wrong with “lite” it still suggested a strange (for me) substitution. So you have a slight chance to make your dear one a deer if you’re not careful. Here Grammarly successfully found a typo in the first sentence but failed to find it in the second one. The worse case is when the grammar checked doesn’t see an error: Basically, it’s not a problem, you can simply review this case and if you believe that you’re right just tell Grammarly to ignore it. Grammarly thought that I typed “can” twice in a row. This time, it worked as advertised and it’s cool! Let’s try a different case:Īs you see with homonym “can” it was not so smoothly. Let’s start with the obvious example, just to see how it works: BTW, the interesting thing here is that though I took this sentence from Grammarly, it still scolded at “erroneous”, suggesting me to put an article before it. Here Grammarly checks for “spelling errors and correctly spelled words used in the wrong context, such as erroneous use of lose/loose, affect/effect, lie/lay, etc…”. In this post, I’m going to test the first thee of them. There are five types of checks Grammarly performs on your text: contextual spelling, grammar, punctuation, sentence structure and style. So let’s switch to testing what it can correct and what it doesn’t. My goal is to test how much Grammarly is useful for improving your writing. Ok, actually I’d not like to focus on UI-related issues a lot here. That’s nice, but it doesn’t always work well with complicated editing boxes like the visual editor in WordPress (but basically it does) and, unfortunately, it doesn’t work with my beloved Google Docs yet.Īlso, Grammarly gives you an opportunity to edit your text in its own editor and then paste it back into the host application’s control: After I had set up the Grammarly’s Chrome plugin, I’ve got their small logo in the right bottom of almost any edit box on a web page:Īnd if I make a mistake it helps me to correct it right there: ) First Impressionįirst of all, I’d like to say that the guys did a good job creating an excellent design and usable interface. So if you find any typos, mistakes and errors don’t blame me. Please note that this text was proofread by Grammarly. So I decided to grasp this opportunity and give it a test drive to see whether it is worthy of its $12/month or not. Recently I’ve got the luck to obtain a free month of Grammarly Premium account.
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