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Do you make a lot of typos or grammar mistakes when writing? Are you paying enough attention when proofreading?
Here’s a useful website that you might like. The site is called Grammarly.com and is a writing-enhancement platform.
I know that a lot of the users here are not native English speakers. However, the site could be useful for native English speakers, too. We often make typos and small mistakes even in our native languages. This proofreading software can be very helpful in that case.
About the site
In order to use the site, you have to make an account first. The free version finds a lot of the common mistakes and shows you where in the text the problem is.
For a more advanced correction, you can get the paid version. However, in my opinion, the free version is good enough, and I haven’t purchased the advanced one.
In the free version, you still get basic information about the advanced mistakes you have made, but the site doesn’t tell you where the mistake is. I think that it can actually be useful since it’s like an exercise. You have to think and find what you wrote wrong on your own. Or, you can type the sentences one by one and this way you’ll easily find the mistake.
You can get the extension and use the software everywhere. There’s also an app, but I haven’t tried it yet.
Other sites
Before I found this website, I often used sites like Lang-8 and Italki where you write text and native language speakers correct it for you. However, you have to wait until someone reads your text, while in Grammarly you have the results immediately. What’s more, sometimes a real person can miss a mistake, but the software usually finds all the issues.
This post is part of my challenge Sharing Is Caring where we share useful information and resources with each other.
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I already use this site, but I also have errors in the text … I have learned the English language itself or I’m still learning
The site helps me a lot, but the free version isn’t perfect indeed.
Just today I downloaded this program you are writing about. And it is awesome. I needed to check my grammar and spelling, and I stumbled upon this program and I gave it a try. Awesome! I recommend it highly!
I am glad that you find it useful! Thanks for sharing your opinion!
Very useful post for me because I’m not a native speaker. Always try to pay a lot of attention when proofreading, but from time to time typos still creep into my texts. Hope very much that Grammarly.com will help me with this problem!!! Thank you very much for this super publication!!!
Thank you very much for stopping by, I am happy that you found the post useful! 🙂
Very good post useful to know.
Thank you so much, Pamela!
That’s awesome, thanks for stopping by!
What do you mean wiht other sites to post? About language learning, or similar to Virily?
Unfortunately, I don’t know other sites like that. If I think of something, I’ll let you know. 🙂 Medium is good for microblogging, but I don’t know if it gains a lot of readers.
Grammarly is great but Ginger is better. Just take a look!!! Great post! Ginger even gives you lessons.
Thank you so much for sharing about Ginger, I hadn’t heard of it before! I will look it up.
I do think that these are useful tools. However, we can still rely on our ability to proofread whatever we wrote on certain sites. c”,)
That’s true, but these tools save some time, and they can be useful for non-native English speakers because no matter how much we proofread, there still can be grammar mistakes of which we may not be aware.
I am not a non-native speaker, too. But I tried not to depend on such tools. On the other hand, I do think it is a good way to proofread certain write-ups.
If only we could edit our replies
I wish we could edit our posts. Both verified and non-verified members should be able to edit their posts, even if the post still needs to be published by a moderator after that.
Agreed. I understand why they don’t want to allow it, but this just ends up annoying…
I will certainly use it. thank you for the information
Thank you very much, Elenka! I hope it will be useful for you!
This is great Ellie. I have always asked for us to be able to correct our posts after publishing but not yet. I do not like typos and check as often as i publish and still miss words. Comments as well.
Thank you, Carol! Not being able to edit our posts is my biggest problem. Hopefully, they will change that soon. Even if there are not any typos, there still can be some technical issues and sometimes the post doesn’t turn out right; or I just want to add something later.
I know and the same with our comments.
Great post, thank you for sharing about Grammarly!
Thank you so much! Have a wonderful weekend! 🙂
Great! I also use Grammarly but it did not occur to me to share it in writing like this, although I often recommend it to friends in Virily when they ask about their post that does not get away from moderation.
It’s a great site! I hope more people will learn about it now.
Yeah! I agree with you…