Does anyone know of a really good grammar and spell checker that I can use
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Re: Does anyone know of a really good grammar and spell checker that I can use
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As an English teacher who works an elite private university with many international students, I share your very positive impression of Grammarly. While it does automatically flag the passive voice and often fails to recognize many specialized technical terms, it's still the best and most flexible editing software I've found so far. It's also quite easy to use.Sahani Nimandra wrote: ↑17 Mar 2018, 21:30 Use grammarly thats the only one I can recommend you in online grammar check
Of course, it does not help in detecting tone or nuance problems but that goes beyond the reasonable expectations for a grammar software program.
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If it's not as robust as Grammarly, then Grammarly might be a better option. You want to use something that will catch the majority of errors.
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Essaytools.com
Grammarbase.clm
Grammrcheck.com
Grammarlookup.com
Gregory's Writing Site
Hemingway Editor
Nounplus
Onlinecorrection.com
Onlinespellcheck.com
Sentencechecker.com
Virtualwritingtutor
All of them do not have to be downloaded and are free. They also have premium options. I haven't tried them all out yet do I am unsure of how helpful they are per situation.
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Update:Mounce574 wrote: ↑10 Jan 2020, 07:59 I just read an article that made a list of grammar and spell checking online options that are free. I haven't tried all of them yet.
Essaytools.com
Grammarbase.com
Grammarcheck.com
Grammarlookup.com
Gregory's Writing Site
Hemingway Editor
Nounplus
Onlinecorrection.com
Onlinespellcheck.com
Sentencechecker.com
Virtualwritingtutor
All of them do not have to be downloaded and are free. They also have premium options. I haven't tried them all out yet do I am unsure of how helpful they are per situation.
I found Hemingway Editor to be the best checker. It will catch passive voice, run-on sentences, redundant words, and a lot more. The catch is you cannot change anything on the online page. But from what I figure is that for the overall quality of a review you can make revisions to what it points out.
Nounplus actually uses Grammarly's site and I found it to be frustrating.
Grammarlookup and VirtualwritingTutor will explain why and what changes would be better.
Overall, after using any of these, read your review out loud and make sure your formatting is correct in the Preview tab before submitting as a final review. I have seen a significant increase in my editorial analysis scores since I started doing this.
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Scribens? I have to check this one! I've been using Grammarly for a few years now and it does a good job with word choices and convoluted sentences. It' not bad with commas, but not ideal.KRay93 wrote: ↑01 Apr 2018, 15:16 The most efficient ones are premium, unfortunately. Grammarly, in its free version, works quite well. It has detected some errors that others failed to spot. I could replace some of the premium mode's functions with Scribens. You do have to remember that not all the things that these software highlights are necessarily wrong, but between them, my own knowledge, and some websites such as wordreference and macmillandictionary, I can build some pretty satisfactory texts in English.
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