Do you use the Grammarly Tool?

red ink corrections
Austin, Texas
December 22, 2017 10:58am CST
Grammarly is a tool that's like the “red ink pen” that your English teacher used to MARK-UP YOUR PAPERS and teach you how bad your English was!! That's right. You turned in your perfect paper expecting to receive it back with one huge red letter A or maybe even an A+. But you get it back with the words of Jesus Christ written all over it!! LOL. (That's how it's done in American schools. I'm not sure about other countries.) I use Grammarly because it's a free tool and because it really does catch my spelling errors and erroneous punctuation marks. But English is my first language and I dare to say that I have had excellent teachers for my entire formal education period (kindergarten through high school and university). However, I find that I am constantly butting heads with this tool! Like it will tell me something is wrong in “red ink” fashion and I'm going “NO! It's RIGHT! My teachers taught me this way!” What gets me is … that tool makes me doubt myself. It makes me doubt Mrs. Copeland and Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Rivera and Sisters Clariece, Clementine and Christie. All of those wonderful English teachers who laid the foundation for me to speak and write English FOREVER!! And it's like I'm almost afraid to leave the writing the way that I KNOW is the correct way to write the sentence because … Well … uuuhhh … Grammarly indicates that it's incorrect. I'm sorry but sometimes I stand firm. I will not that tool erase all the hard work those teachers put into me to make who I am today!! LOL. Technology versus Teachers. Gotta love it! P.S. It's a really good tool. Poking fun at it, but I use it all the time. I've grown so accustomed to it, I'm not sure I can work without it now. Also, I do recommend it if English is not your first language but you do a lot of your writing in English. https://www.grammarly.com
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8 responses
@MALUSE (69428)
• Germany
22 Dec 17
I use Grammarly only because I don't type well and have the occasional typo in my text. Besides, I tend to forget a comma here or there. Yet, I find it rather a dangerous tool if your English is not very good. I do *not* recommend it for people for whom English is a foreign language. I was a teacher of English as a foreign language for 40 years and I can say that I know the language well. Very often, Grammarly suggests something which is complete nonsense but which you can't see if you don't know the language well. It sounds absurd, but know that I'm right.
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• Austin, Texas
22 Dec 17
Oh OK! I thought there were quirky things about the tool. But you noticed it too!
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• Austin, Texas
23 Dec 17
@Icydoll - Some sites disable Grammarly because they say it interferes with their site's script. I've had that happen at one site. But at most sites. I don't have any problem with it.
@Icydoll (36725)
• India
23 Dec 17
Yeah I use grammarly in chrome in my laptop.but I use mobile much .
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@meowch (2220)
• United States
22 Dec 17
I remembered using grammarly once I really liked it but at the time there was subscription cost. I downloaded a grammar game to learn to proofread it's an iPhone app. I still need to play with the grammar game more often.
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• Austin, Texas
23 Dec 17
I did hear that at one time there was a cost. But I'm using the free version.
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@sishy7 (27169)
• Australia
22 Dec 17
Oh, thank you for this information. I've heard of the site before but never looked into it. Spelling and punctuation marks I'm generally okay with. But everything else I would need a lot of help with grammatically. I had the hardest time in English classes throughout school. It's like, I had been speaking English all of my life, but someone who learned English as a second language would probably wrote much better paper than me during school. When I do use it, I doubt I will have any argument with it as I would not know any better...
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@MALUSE (69428)
• Germany
22 Dec 17
I always have arguments with it. And I win!
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@TheHorse (203765)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Feb 18
I do not.
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@shshiju (10343)
• Cochin, India
23 Dec 17
Crammer is good. But more restrictions pull the ideas behind.
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@Hannihar (129111)
• Israel
3 Jan 18
I have never used it. I remember papers coming back with that red mark on it.
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• United States
24 Dec 17
Yes, and I love it. I know that it does tell me something is wrong, but it's mostly due it dialogue (After all, who speaks in perfect grammar?) or how a name is spelled, due to some names are unique and not recognizable as proper spelling. I just ignore those, and love how it does catch mistakes I make. I just the free version, would love to have the money for better editing, but that's okay, the free version can still get me an agent...I hope...
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@JudyEv (323706)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Dec 17
I don't use it. I think it would be make me doubt myself too and I can do enough of that on my own.
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