Whether you are a student, a writer, a blogger even in your professional life, wouldn’t it be great to have your written work scan through by someone first before you submit? That is why great editors are often expensive and highly sought after. Even when I was in the workforce, many of my peers would love to seek another’s opinion before handing out that important business proposal to the client or click that ‘Send’ button on that particular email to our boss.
As mentioned in many of my articles before, it is important to make use of the available online tools to help you advance your skills and your career. One of those tools that I advocate and have been using it myself is Grammarly.com. I have tried other online spelling and grammar tools and Word doc spell check as well, nothing come close to Grammarly.com. The best part? They do have a free version here!
The generous and kind folks at Grammarly.com have gifted MiddleMe a premium trial version so I show you what this advanced tool can do.
First of all, for those who have been using the free version of Grammarly.com will know that this tool corrects your tenses, spelling and your punctuations up to 150 critical mistakes. For those who are keen to try out, it is simple: Go to grammarly.com to add Grammarly to your browser. As you go about responding to emails, drafting blog posts, or commenting on articles, Grammarly gently underlines words or phrases that don’t look quite right. You can use in with your Mailbox, Gmail, Word docs even in WordPress. It is smart too, as it learns your preferences and provides you with a weekly email on your performance. That way you will understand better on your writing style and improve your progress in writing.
For the premium version, there are vast differences and benefits like:
– Advanced grammar and spell checks
– Sentence Structures and Vocabulary enhancement suggestions (I really love this feature!)
– Genre-specific writing style checks
– Plagiarism detector (super useful when it comes to hiring freelancing writers for my clients!)
I have tried the premium version myself with MiddleMe and LadyRedot published articles, and I shall showcase some of the features that are described above.
Passive Voice
The above is an article taken from LadyRedot about Taiwan. It is yellow underlined to let me know that my sentence is in a passive voice. If you expand the little box, it will provide you with reason and examples.
Repetitive Word
On the same article, the premium version of Grammarly.com highlighted that I have been using the same word once too often. I love it that the tool doesn’t just tell you your mistake but provides you with possible replacement words for your selection.
Weak Adjectives
Same goes for weak adjectives. This will allow me to improve myself as a writer.
Better Word Pair
Another of my top favourite is this feature. Not everyone can come up with the most suitable vocabulary, and it really helps to have suggestions like the one below, especially if you are burning the midnight oil, trying to meet your deadline!
Faulty Parallelism
Correcting your sentence structure to make sure it make sense to your readers is like having another person proofreading your article before you submit your thesis to your lecturer.
These are the top 5 favourites of mine in the premium version of Grammarly.com. I am confident that there are a lot more features I have not discover yet and will be surprise and delight by the tool once it learns more about my writing style and habits.
If you want to improve your writing and perhaps be a top earning freelance writer in the market, Grammarly.com can help you in so many ways just like it is helping me. Go on, download the free version and let me know if it has helped you.
If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a comment below.
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I love Grammarly.com I’m only using the free version but would love to update! It’s highly useful 😀
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I’m happy that you’re a fan just like me! The tool really helped me a lot in my writing.
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Thank you for the review…I like it that much…but, for pay version..I have no any credit card.
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For you and all..
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Haha! Gong Xi Fa Cai!! I’m sure you can drop an email to ask if they have other form of payment. It is truly an useful tool even the free version is useful.
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Yes, hahahha.. I think next year telling them my bank account 😀
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Let me ask about it then hehe
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Reblogged this on Still Another Writer's Blog.
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Great and so informative post Kally. A good share and it would come in use whenever there is something which we are writing and require to check.
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Yes, I totally love Grammarly. I won’t endorse a product if I don’t believe in it.
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So true Kally
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I swear by Grammarly! I’m only using the free version also, but it does the job! 😊
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Yes, totally! Glad that you’re a fan just like me. It helps me to improve on my writing.
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I’d have liked to have this on my browser , but I’ve just been told that there isn’t a mobile modality ….
Anyway, thank you!
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You’re most welcome!! I write on my mobile but I do my editing on my laptop that’s when I use Grammarly to edit my work.
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Oh,I see….
Thanks for your explanation!
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I will check this one Kally..
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Great!! Let me know if you like it when you use the free version.
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This is a very interesting read. A program like this certainly might come in handy. also, or perhaps especially, for a non-native English speaker/writer. I do think one needs to be careful with the suggestions the program does though. A private park is realy different from an isolated park. And if a spring is hot, it’s hot and not warm. Also: creativity should not be stifled by what the programmer thinks is ‘good’ language. But hey, I don’t have to go tell you this 🙂
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Totally agree with you. After all, a tool doesn’t replace the creativity and one shouldn’t just take any suggestion by the program blindly. I rather read a bad grammar but meaningful article than an uninteresting poor content but proper post.
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I didn’t know about it at all. Thanks girlll. 🙂 a great article!
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You’re most welcome!! Happy that you like the article! Spread around to your blogger friends.
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I use it and love it.
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Welcome to the fan club! 😊
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Thanks, I too like Grammarly, never realized how dumb I was…
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You’re not dumb, Leland. We all have quirks and flaws, that’s what made us humans.
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I refuse to believe you need help in your writing!
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Awwww.. that’s sweet of you to say that! I do make mistakes every now and then, after all, I’m human and I’m not perfect. 😊😘
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Reblogged this on necltr and commented:
More good advice from MM/MiddleMe.
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Thanks a lot for sharing this out!!
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I use Grammarly and it helps me to refine my sentences with the right grammar and words.
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Another fan of Grammarly!
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Awesome article. Hope you won’t mind if I share this with some friends and fellow bloggers. All the best.
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I would love it if you can share this out!! Thanks a lot!
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You’re welcome… Thank you.
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