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.
