We spend a lot of time online writing emails, writing reports
or documents that we need, but not all of us are native
speakers of English. Moreover, even native speakers can have
mistakes here and there because they may be in a rush and can
not notice a small typo that they may have done. Grammarly is
a really helpful Chrome extension that I have been using for a
few weeks now and I am really content with it.
It automatically scans the texts and the sentences that you
have written at sites like Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,
Tumblr and nearly everywhere else you write on the web. After
the text is automatically scanned, it analyzes the text and in
almost real time gives you feedback and warns you whether you
have typos.
It does not only inform you for the typos that you may have
done but can also suggest you to even put or remove commas
that you may have put in the sentence that you are writing,
replace a certain phrase with a better one and remove the
redundant spaces between words.
Additionally, Grammarly uses
Natural Language Processing to identify the correctly
spelled words used in the wrong context like lose/loose,
affect/effect, lie/lay, there/their/they’re, and many other
commonly confused words.
According to the description in the extension’s
page
in the Chrome store, it can also fix a lot of grammatical
errors, including subject-verb agreement, article use, and
modifier placement, to name just a few.
Here are a few reviews that this tool has received so far,
based on the extension’s Chrome page:
Forbes: “Grammarly quickly and easily makes your writing
better and makes you sound like a pro, or at least helps you
avoid looking like a fool.”
Harvard Business Review:
“…good grammar is instrumental in conveying ideas with
clarity, professionalism, and precision…Good grammar is simply
good business.”
ABC News: “Poor grammar is just as
offensive as gross pick-up lines.”
I believe this
extension
is worth installing and trying for a few days. I hope you find
it useful.