Unexpected results of Grammarly, the english grammar check online

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A few moments ago I have downloaded Grammarly Free.

And I came back here on WA and surprisingly some green wheel is checking my grammar right away! And gives the errors with a red dot!

you can click on the dot, and it gives you the right grammar instantly!

How nice!

https://app.grammarly.com/


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It happen to me a lot:) Thank you for sharing!

My pleasure:)

Loes
Thanks for this one.
It's a great tool, I've used it before.
However most nice things especially software have their limitations as Authur has rightly pointed out.
How many of us totally depend on spellcheckers? I don't.

I never trust spellchecker with the literally translated phrases. I know it is often not fitting in another language.

Hi Loes,

I certainly do not wish to "rain on anyone's parade"but I would personally advise caution when using or recommending this piece of software!

In the first place, as an English teacher of long experience, I am skeptical that a piece of software can provide accurate checks of one's grammar and spelling et cetera. Motivated by this perception I searched the Internet for a review of the product and came up with the following!
(The quotation below is from an article entitled "Grammarly doesn't do all it claims to do")

"We might be tempted to suggest Grammarly for students or learners of English, but the fact that Grammarly has nothing to say about so many of our intentionally incorrect sentences leads us to the sad conclusion that Grammarly is useless for everyone. "

(Their review was highly revealing!)

http://goo.gl/Mmfcns

I recommend reading the article in its entirety before making a decision to purchase. On a hopeful note may be the software will have improved by the time you read this post?

Arthur

Hi Arthur, I know what you mean, it's a free online version which can be downloaded, and I think it's very handy for not native English writers, for instance, words as appriciation, congratiolation, verrification, recomanding, disicion, etc. how the heck does you spell those words correctly. I know I need other help for sentence structure or phrase form :)
It's a great help for me. I don 't have the jump over to Google every sentence.

Hi Loes,
As you point out, this particular version that you speak of may be useful to the non-native English writers. Certainly anything that helps when it comes to improving one's English, and is free to boot, can't be all that bad! I suppose it gives some credence to the old English saying "don't look a gift horse in the mouth"!
Please don't label me as a "grammar Nazi" just yet! Some of us are perhaps a little bit too picky!

Kind regards,
Arthur

There is always an option to "ignore" the recommendation.

I won't label you Arthur, but this free tool is very convenient to me:)

Great, thank you Loes, will get it right away! :-)

It's going to be dull here with all that correct spelled English:)

...correctly spelt English... :-)

Nice program to follow Thanks for sharing

My pleasure:)

Hi Loes,

It is a fantastic free program that really helps with grammar. I use it all the time and also recommend it to everyone I can. :)

I love it already Lis

I use it all the time Loes, although sometimes it gives the American version of spelling rather than how we would spell it in UK, but still a great tool

I know Gordon, you've mentioned it before, but I am a bit slow with these things

Whaouw, thanks Loes!
Just installed it. Such a great tool!
Very useful when English is not your first language :)
Just checking my website and there is some work to do haha

Didn't have the courage to go there yet, had about 100 mistakes just now in my PDF:(

At least now you have a tool to fix them ;)
I have a lot of mistakes fix too

Cool, thanks for the tip.

Really great Paul, when I write appriciate it says instantly, stupid it's appreciate :))

Hi. I am a frequent user of Grammarly chrome extension. It works really great. It corrects my misspelt words on the fly. At the same time, I am learning English language punctuation. Something I've never bothered to learn while in the school :)

I have it now for 5 minutes and I love it Ervin!

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