when it comes to writing, nobody is perfect that's because we are all humans.
That's where a second-eye check can really help us.
Be we cannot always find somebody who can do that for us.
In this video we will see a detailed demo of how grammarly works and what it has to
offer us.
Let's start.
More than one billion people are studying English worldwide. and One quarter of the
world's population speaks at least some English.
so it's important that what we write makes sense to others.
with grammarly it's going to be a cake walk when it comes to writing with confidence as
it suggests, spelling errors, grammar checks like magic.
it works on any website if you enable it.
It comes in different flavours - browser extensions, web application, microsoft office addin or
a native windows desktop application.
Let me show you a demo. this is the web application - you can get
that by going to app.grammarly.com - you can sign up using your email, or google account
or your facebook account.
which ever you use, it gives you this page where you can either write directly or upload
a document to proofread and correct your writing.
so, i am going to give just a title here.
so these are the options on the left hand side where i can just paste, upload, click
here to upload a document - could be a text file.
This is not a premium account, am just using a sample account to give a demo of how it
looks in the free version.
so, once we start typing here, this is how it works.
click on these would correct it like magic.
that's it.
once we start writing here it's going to give us correction options and grammar checks done
within the document.
there is one advanced issue as you can see here which is a premium option.
clicking on that will give me punctuation correction, but for now let's stick to the
basic version and it is good enough for us to proceed further.
so that was the web application.
now let's see how the MS office addin for grammarly works.
it is a great addition to your word document and outlook so it can help while writing emails
to your colleagues and bosses and avoid embarrassing mistakes in the email.
the best part of grammarly is not just checking grammar or spelling, among other services,
but it also helps you learn and improve your writing on-the-go, as it suggests options
that we can learn in real-time.
first download the addin from here and install it.
grammarly for microsoft office, you can get the download here.
after installing you can see a new button under the home tab and also a new tab created
within the word document for grammarly.
it has toggle buttons that you can choose and select the specific writing issues you
want grammarly to check.
there are 7 categories of checks you want to run on your document - but not all of these
are available in the free version, to get, for example, a plagiarism check, as I mentioned
before, it's done, with a premium account.
There is also a settings option where you can choose if grammarly needs to startup as
soon as you open a word document, and you can also view your account settings and, check
for updates and so on.
once you have chosen the required settings, all the correction suggestions will be neatly
shown on the sidebar window.
let me go ahead and enable grammarly.
This is the sidebar that can give you correction suggestions and here is where you can make
the text corrections - just like the same way how we saw on the web application, with
one simple click on the alert cards, these are all called cards, which can give you 4
options - like the one seen on the screen now.
you could accept the correction suggestion by clicking on the green text, or click on
"learn more" to get a detailed explanation of the highlighted writing issue and learn
and improve your future writing, or add to dictionary or simply ignore the alert.
With the premium account you also get more than 30 different document types that you
can choose from this drop down over here, including a casual blog post.
This way you can get the most accurate and relevant corrections for your specific writing
situation.
so that's how it works on a word document and in a similar fashion within your outlook
application as well.
once again, all these links are just a click away for you conveniently provided in the
description below.
Just a note that this is an affiliate link, which at no extra cost to you, can give me
a small kickback if you choose to use grammarly.
what's now left is the browser extension and the desktop application.
both of these work more or less the same way as we just saw.
The browser extension, once installed, sits inside your browser and thus can help you
write without errors on social media websites like when you comment on facebook posts, blog
posts, write an email within your gmail account, or a yahoo account and anywhere else on the
internet.
by popular request, grammarly has even a grammarly keyboard for mobile, that can be used on Android
and Apple phones.
although they aren't perfect yet, with some issues, they are nevertheless available and
improving every single day.
i highly recommend using the mobile versions as well.
And here is where you can get the grammarly for windows, which is a native desktop application.
Simply download, install and start using it and it works almost the same way how we saw
on the web application.
all said, there are a couple of extra benefits grammarly offers which is number one, their
blog and the other one is their handbook.
the handbook is available from their footer over here.
Here, handbook.
i have found that both the blog and the handbook go hand in hand.
the handbook gives a lot of things to learn all in one page. and the blog shows how and
when to use certain punctuations, parts of speech appropriately.
here is what's given in the handbook, where we can learn the mechanics, and techniques of
writing and some of the style options here - passive voice, singular they and so on...
And there are some related options here - advice vs advise what's the difference, american
vs british quotation marks - it gives a very detailed study of how and when to use punctuation,
that we can learn from the handbook.
similary on blog posts as well, like this one for example, what PS means and how to
use it correctly in your email.
Here's how to know the difference between miss, mrs., and ms. and how to pronounce it.
I could be pronouncing it incorrectly but this article can help you with that and some
more useful blog posts.
i hope you will use grammarly as there is no reason not to use. and above all most of
the options are free!
So, there is nothing that we have to wait for.
to summarize, these are the services offered from grammarly.
it gives us plagiarism checking, grammar check, spelling check, punctuation, word choice and
style mistakes.
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