Do you use the Grammarly Tool?

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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