Recently I decided to start trying out Grammarly for my writing, and I'm glad I did! If you don't know what Grammarly is, it's a service that helps you with your grammar when posting to any website. You can either log into their website or download their browser toolbar add-on like I did for Firefox. When you're normally writing or typing something up, you will see little red lines under words you misspelled or spelled correctly but the internal system doesn't recognize the word. With Grammarly, you can find a vast variety of these words, as well as grammar mistakes, and quickly edit them before you submit anything.
I recently started using Grammarly with my writing service here on SEOclerks just so I could guarantee the best grammar and spelling output I possibly can. I have my flaws when writing and a good example of that is when I use "it's" instead of "its" even though I've known the difference between the two and how to use them. It's like my fingers just throw in the apostrophe without my brain catching it, but Grammarly is there to tell me I screwed it up! This is also good because internal spelling systems for blogs and websites won't catch that you input "it's" when you should have used "its" instead.
If you haven't figured it out yet, I'll be giving my Grammarly review within this discussion so everyone can get an idea of what it is and if it's worth it for them to use
Grammarly is free, sort of
Grammarly is free to some extent, and you might never need to upgrade your membership if you don't want to. Sure, there are a few additional features for those people who aren't the best at writing, but you might not need to upgrade at all if you just learn a bit about how to write and type.
You can upgrade your account for $29.95 a month, or if you want to pay for a year in advance, you can get that price down to $11.66 a month which is roughly a 61% discount
Grammarly paid features
Grammarly has some pretty sweet paid features to help out a novice or even pro writers. I don't even have the paid version right now and it's still a powerful piece of software packaged in a little plugin
The paid features will help you do various things such as check plagiarism across more than 8 billion web pages to help you structure sentences better. It's like a writing and English teacher watching over what you're doing and making sure everything is top notch.
The Only Downside of Grammarly
I have noticed one big downside of Grammarly that I've sent in an email about. I've been running this service on my articles for a few weeks now, and I love it, but it tends to lag a bit when I'm writing in a text box because it's constantly trying to figure out what's going on with my writing and if something is wrong. I will type up a sentence and my words will show up a second or two after they are typed. This may not be a big problem for people who don't type very fast, but I'm hitting around 100 words a minute right now and increasing slowly as time goes on.
For those of you saying "It could just be your computer not being able to run the plugin properly!!!!" and all I have to show you are my laptops specs in order for you to prove it's not my laptop lol.
- Processor:
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Quad Core Processor (2.6-3.5GHz) - RAM:
16GB (8GB x2) DDR4 2133MHz | Hard Drive: 256GB SSD (PCIE Gen3 x4) NVMe + 2TB (SATA) 7200rpm - Operating System:
Windows 10 - Graphics Card:
NVIDIA Geforce GTX970M 3G GDDR5 | Display: 17.3" UHD, 4K eDP IPS-Level 3840 x 2160 - Special Features:
4K Display | Steel Series Full-color Backlight with Anti-Ghost key + Silver Lining | LAN: Killer Gaming Network E2400 | Wireless: Killer N1535 Combo | True Color Technology
If you haven't figured it out yet, my laptop is a gaming laptop designed to run first-person shooters at 60fps. If you don't know what that means, my laptop can run highly detailed video games at a very high rate and not lag at all, but Grammarly lags my screen a bit....
Would I recommend it for authors and bloggers?
I certainly would recommend it to all bloggers and authors who churn out a decent amount of content each week! I love this little add-on to my Firefox browser and I'm sure other people would like it just as much, maybe even more than I do lol. The way I get around my lag problem is to just disable the add-on while typing and then turn it on when I go back to spell/grammar check everything I just wrote
It works very well this way, and it doesn't slow me down one bit when having it on after I'm done writing
In Conclusion
Grammarly is definitely a beast of a little plugin and has helped me write even better than before. It's constantly looking over my shoulder and helping me with the small mistakes that my fingers might miss. It's easy to go back and edit everything, you just hover over the mistake and a small box pops up with suggestions on what to have instead of what is currently written. It's a great little add-on and I would suggest everyone take a peek at it, not just the people who are writing and blogging more than the average person
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Razzy
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