Grammarly Is Not Always Right

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I have mixed feelings about using Grammarly. Having it loaded makes my pages load more slowly. It is awkward to use. It tells me, for example, that I need to change a word, and then it makes it hard for me to get into the word to change it. The only time I like it is when it catches a typo and offers me the option of clicking on a correctly spelled word to fix it. When is it wrong? When it only seems to see the word directly before a verb or noun and then tells me I'm not agreeing with it. That's just one example. If I were to apply some of its corrections I would be wrong. But I just made one mistake it didn't even catch. Good thing I already caught it myself and corrected it. What Grammarly really hates is when I leave an extra space between words. It constantly sends me back to delete spaces. It annoys me. I use the free version. So far I haven't seen enough to convince me a paid version would be an improvement. Do you use Grammarly? If so, the free version or the paid? How do you like it? Have you ever seen it make a mistake? I think it might help students of English as a Foreign Language if they only write simple sentences. Grammarly is less useful if you write complex sentences with lots of phrases that act as nouns or verbs.