(According to the Grammarly website.) (Is this, or not, another upgrade to premium?)Īnd that alone will separate the men from the boys… or writers from blogger/hobbyists. The biggee according to Bill Winterberg, Journalist out of Atlanta…The service goes beyond the basic spell check and grammar check built into the word processor, as Grammarly can identify correctly spelled words that are used in the wrong context.Examples: lose/loose, affect/effect, lie/lay, there/their/they’re Word spelled correctly but used in the wrong context is caught.Grammarly now corrects out of order pronouns i.e., Her children and she- She and her children….Grammarly can scan a document and highlight those words (thesaurus) that could be replaced to strengthen the text.Will work with WordPress(?) as well as Facebook. (I have yet to prove this.).Free Grammarly for Word currently uses 100 grammar rules to apply to your document. The naysayers insist it is not that great at telling you if you have the correct word.Is the “FREE” version that cheesy? Well, let’s see: Grammarly Pros: The free version is available to download for your browser on Chrome, Safari, and Firefox and is compatible with Word and Outlook. I signed up for the Grammarly Extension yesterday, intending to use it for this post, but almost before fully “signed in,” asked to upgrade to “professional.” I’m not sure about you, but I get really ticked when immediately asked to upgrade before I’ve had a chance to use or understand the program. OOPS! Word doesn’t recognize that word either). (That is, don’t expect to upload a novella size text for analyzation. This is not a program I’ve personally used and I’d assume is limited. After pasting (or uploading) your text, just select “Get Report” and you’ll immediately receive your analysis. The Terms of Service, which you must agree to, were last updated February 20, 2014. And while it invites you to paste the text of your paper (or upload a file), I didn’t see any word limit. There are a number of free, but limited, independent spell and grammar checkers out there available for download. This is the Flesch Reading Easescore for this document (55.5%–I’d prefer to see 70%) as well as the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score (at 8.9 or freshman in high school–should be easy to read–I’m good with that), about which I’ve previously written and I try to keep my posts within a certain level. Part of the reason I continue to stick with MS Word Spelling and Grammar checker is that it also gives me Readability Stats, including passive voice phrases (8%–that’s acceptable at under 10%). So, I thought I’d look into the fuss over Grammarly. docx have a more complete command of the language? Currently, I must “add to dictionary” constantly slang terms, colloquialisms, and common blogging expressions, as well as the idioms commonly used for sailing or popular historic word usage (from my grandfather’s manuscripts). But there are advantages and disadvantages to the simple Spelling and Grammar checker on my equally old (POS) computer. Late to the party again? Sometimes I never get there at all! It’s not as if I haven’t heard of Grammarly before, just that I’ve been quite content to finish my thoughts and then run the Spelling and Grammar checker under “Tools” in my very old MS Word (2003) program.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |