When it spots an error, such as the errant ‘grammer’ above, it underlines it and keeps a running score of errors found in the bottom-right corner of the editing window. The thing I like most about Grammarly is its correction system. (And, yes, it did put a red line under that typo – I was just testing to see if you’re still awake). Consequently, if there’s a typo or crime against grammer in this blog post, it’s Grammarly’s fault, not mine.
It comes in various guises, the one I’m most fond of being the plugin for the Google Chrome browser, which now means all my blog posts, social media utterances and online form submissions are all scrupulously checked in real-time(ish) before they’re published. They could really do with Grammarly.Īs its name suggests, Grammarly is a writing aid – it will stick thick red lines under words or phrases that it feels you could improve, much like an omnipresent English teacher. They can string together phrases so elegant that Keira Knightley would wear them, but their spelling, grammar and punctuation is wild. Some of the best journalists I’ve worked with can’t write for Tofu.
