A few months ago, a friend and author introduced me to this software called Grammarly, a grammar and spelling checker for proofreading articles, book chapters and blog posts. As an author and a blogger, I find it handy for proofreading my work – and it works like a charm.
In this article, I’ll cover only the features I have been using since I discovered this amazing software. There may be more features to tap from.
As I stated earlier, Grammarly is a writing tool that helps you check for several types of errors.
Grammar and punctuation
It detects grammar and punctuation mistakes – basic to advanced. It also provides real-time suggestions and guidelines on how to correct these mistakes.
Spell Check
It’s also a robust spell check tool that keeps your writing mistake-free.
Plagiarism Grammarly detects plagiarism, by comparing your writing to billions of web pages across the web.
Self-editing tool
It will also help you self-edit your work by providing real-time insights about your readability score, sentence-length and so on. This is extremely important for adapting your genre-specific writing style for a particular audience.
Grammarly is useful for both native English speakers and those who don’t write in the English language that often or English as a second language.
Perfect for business professionals, students and professional writers
Any business professional who wants to draft an accurate report, presentation, email or social media post.
Students For new writers and professional writers, this grammar checker acts as another line of defence, even if they are native english speakers.
Additionally, Grammarly offers settings specific to Canadian English, American English, British English, Australian English and more.
You can use it to make sure your book, article or blog post is accurate and easy to read.
The premium version is also useful for students who may have a batch of work they want to check.
You can take out a subscription for a month, check your work and then cancel if you need to otherwise keep it if you are a busy writer.
That being said, be careful to ensure that you’re not violating any rules and regulations set by your university or school.
How Grammarly Works
Once you create a Grammarly account for free, take a tour of the Grammarly editor, found on the dashboard.Here you can set writing goals based on your
Copy and Paste
Copy and paste your entire article, book or extracts of your writing into Grammarly for proofreading, grammar checking and for a spell check.
By clicking on ‘Import,’ you can also upload a Microsoft Word document into Grammarly.
You can actually use Grammarly as your primary writing app, by writing directly in the tool environment. As you type, Grammarly will automatically start pointing out errors. Once you click on the highlighted word in red, Grammarly will show you the errors and suggests the correct word, grammar or missing comma, hyphen and full stop.
Using the Grammarly Chrome extension.
When you install Grammarly Chrome extension by accepting the terms and condition, You’ll get suggestions from Grammarly as you write on Gmail, Twitter, LinkedIn, and nearly everywhere else you find yourself writing. Grammarly is a writing assistant that goes deeper than grammar to offer you comprehensive writing feedback. You can be confident that your writing is not only correct but clear and concise, From grammar and spelling to style and tone, Grammarly helps you eliminate writing errors and find the perfect words to express yourself. You will be regarded as a professional writer.
Grammarly Suggestions
A few seconds after you incorporate your text, this proofreading tool underlines grammar mistakes similar to what you see in Microsoft Word.
Grammarly Premium also provides more detailed suggestions than the free version about why you made a writing mistake such as errors in sentence structure.
This is particularly useful if you’re a non-native English writer or if you want to improve your knowledge of English language grammar rules. There’s a Grammarly handbook filled with grammar tips if you need more help.
However, you should still exercise judgment before deciding what to fix and what to leave.
One of Grammarly’s new features analyzes the Flesch reading level ease of your text – it estimates what level of education a person needs to read your content easily.
The Plagiarism Checker
Included in your Grammarly account, is a plagiarism checker, which can be useful if you’re writing academic content or reviewing a peer’s work.
Bloggers and content marketers find this very useful. It allows them to check if they have inadvertently copied text from their research sources and then forgotten to edit their content to make the text original.
This feature might also appeal to college students who are concerned about citing too heavily from their sources.
If you can post on Facebook, you can use Grammarly Premium or the free version.
Is Grammarly Easy to Use?
Thanks to the apps for Windows and Mac, the web Grammarly extension and even mobile ones, it takes only a few minutes to install Grammarly and make this real-time grammar and spelling checker part of your writing workflow.
Early in 2018, the Grammarly desktop apps for Windows, Mac, iOS and so on were updated.
They also improved their user experience and added a number of additional features like writing insights and setting writing goals.
I do use the Grammarly Microsoft Office plugin so often in my Word documents and Outlook emails.
I also use the Grammarly Chrome extension to check shorter pieces of writing, like emails and potentially embarrassing social media posts.
The company offers you a specialized Grammarly keyboard for mobile devices so you can apply the tool to your writing on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, GMail, and other web pages and platforms you type on.
With this, you can enable Grammarly checking on most apps on your phone automatically – which makes creating mistake-free text and documents a breeze.
Pricing options
Here are the Grammarly pricing options as of this year at the time of writing this article.
Grammarly Premium monthly subscription costs $29.95 per month.
Grammarly Premium quarterly subscription costs 19.98 per month, billed as one payment of $59.95.
Grammarly Premium annual subscription costs $11.66 per month, billed as one payment of $139.95.
You could always try Grammarly for free in case you want to test it out first. Because I am writing a book and use it for business writing, I will be upgrading to a premium soon.«
I have known Charles Vincent Kauwasha for many long years now since we first met in Accident and Emergency department of Hutt Hospital Lower Hutt New Zealand, where he was an emergency nurse. I had a problem with my heart and very quickly learnt to trust him with my life! we got talking about our businesses and exchanged contact details. Charles has been a loyal friend and business contact here and on whatsapp etc ever since that time, even after he moved from New Zealand to Australia. Charles is a very honest, loyal and trustworthy person, both in business and as a friend. I highly recommend Charles as a safe person to know and do business with.
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A unique and profound CEO I have seen in our times, I have seen the calibre in Charles. Charles has a performing influence drive from his desires to do work in an extraordinary way. Charles is adeliver, you will not regret working on projects with him
I Studied with Vincent Kaluwasha during this programme. A highly skilled and knowledgeable individual. Passionate about Occupational Health and would suitably work in the is capacity anywhere in the world”.
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Thanks to you Charles, we can be there when the worst happens to give people the emergency medical care they need – and rapid transport to hospital. Your support means that CareFlight can fly at a few minutes’ notice, to some of the most inhospitable places in this country. It means patients like Simon can be reached quickly with hospital-level emergency care at the scene – and in cases like Simon’s every minute counts.
On behalf of everyone at CareFlight, thank you for your generosity – and have a wonderful holiday season. Thank you so much
Dear CVK, Awesome, a huge thank you for your prompt response!!! I feel blessed to know you.I love your inspiring video and I have learnt a lot from your nicely arranged presentation. I can’t remember the question I paused to you myself but it feels like whatever it was I asked you has been effectively dealt with in your powerful video. By the way, I strongly feel you can make a good mentor of mine considering the massive education and experience you have acquired through the years. Let me know if you can do this for me because I firmly believe there is a purpose why God brings certain people into our lives which is to help us achieve our fullest potential and arrive at our God-given destiny. Remain blessed forevermore in Jesus mighty name, Amena!!! By the way, many thanks for your quick encouraging feedback and for the free book offer on how to attract people to my biz.Will study the book ASAP and I should be able to implement what I will learn and will see where that will take me. I am looking forward to a rewarding interaction between the two of us. Once again, thank you for your non-wavering support and encouragement you have rendered to me over the years. I thought you had given up on me and forgotten about me since I appeared to be wasting your time. I am still interested in salvaging my life and do something new and big because I am tired and sick of living a mediocre kind of life. Please help me if you can by God’s grace. Have a blessed day my Brotherman
Charles, right now, a lot of people in this country are saying, “Thank you.”Thank you for being there when they needed help most. Thank you for taking charge when their world was turning upside down. Thank you for giving them confidence, when they were afraid and needed life-saving help. As a CareFlight Support Crew Member, you are making such a difference for so many people. Your regular donations help save lives and keep families together. Patients like Thomas, who told us, “You made it possible for me to survive.”And Agnes, who said, “I’m very grateful a service like CareFlight exists.”Below are some more messages of thanks: Thanks from the patients you help. As we head into another year, we know there will be even more people who will call on our services. So, I’d like to add my heartfelt thanks to those of our patients, for your steadfast support. Together we are ensuring CareFlight is always there for people when they call for our help. Whether it’s intubating a patient at the scene of an accident, or ensuring a newborn is safe on a flight from a remote area to a major hospital for treatment, our patients cannot speak highly enough of the care they receive. Charles, that care is part of a chain that starts with people like you. These expressions of gratitude, from all over the country and from all walks of life, show you how much your support is valued – and how much it is needed, more than ever. We can’t do what we do without you.
Dear Charles
If this year has taught us anything so far, it’s that none of us ever truly know what is around the corner.
That’s why I can’t thank you enough for your support that ensures we can continue to provide life-saving aeromedical care to Australians most in need.
Our CareFlight crews are in a unique position to understand what Australians have been going through. Every day, we care for people who have found their world shaken by a sudden accident or illness – coping with circumstances almost none expected to face when they woke up that morning.
People like Simon Bowman don’t like to rely on others for help. But one day, as he lay trapped inside his car after a terrible road accident, with suspected injuries to his spine and shoulder and a possible head trauma, Simon needed life-saving help desperately. CareFlight was there in a matter of minutes.
CareFlight’s rapid response helicopter service is so vital in situations like this. Our crew can be airborne in minutes and by the side of our patient, delivering hospital-level emergency care as fast as possible.
Simon doesn’t remember much about his accident, but he does recall the voices of the CareFlight crew as they worked urgently to treat his injuries. Simon told us: “I knew there was someone looking after me and that I was in good hands.”
Our mission is to deliver people the very best care. We’ve spearheaded international aeromedical innovations such as our stretcher bridge system and become the first civilian service to carry blood plasma to the scene of an accident.
The care, the state-of-the-art equipment, those voices which reassure patients that they are in the hands of skilled professionals they can trust – it’s all thanks to people like you.
Simon has recovered and recently visited our base to meet some of the crew. He has never forgotten the help he received from CareFlight, so meeting them again was an emotional experience.
Seeing the helicopter that transported him to hospital, he was amazed at its size. He confessed he’d never been that keen on helicopters, “but I was very keen that one was there that day.”
Your support for CareFlight is helping to save so many lives, like Simon’s.
Thank you so much.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CEO!! peacemaker, Shepherd, wise, intelligent, focused, hardworking, caring, loving, forgiving, Husband, Granddad and most importantly best Father Charles V. Kaluwasha. We’ve been truly blessed to have you as our mentor and protector. We thank God for keeping you alive and healthy. Today we celebrate your 60th, a blessed milestone! Next, we count down to your 100th BIRTHDAY. WE LOVE YOU and pray we have you as our father in the next life- @Kendy Kaluwasha
Charles is a very intelligent individual and is very knowledgeable in regards to the Australian Real Estate market. We continue to work a long side each other and we will be for a very long time. He is a much needed asset to my business and growth of my business in the future.
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My great sponsor, you inspired me a lot, you are really God sent, to make life better for me, I will not hide it from you, that I really have a little bit of financial contains, because all what I was saving for my travel I left 60%of the money to take care of my two children, to buy a bag of rice and different foods stuff. so here in Monrovia I don’t want to sit idle I just want to start some clothing business, so I am pleading what everything you help me with for the sake of God Almighty, God will surely triple it in return. Thanks sir and God bless you the great man one day you will be the richest man in Zambia, God bless you. I pray that the money will grow more than ten billion dollars. Amen sir, thank you sir, one day you will be a leader in Zambia, by the Grace of God, that my vision for you sir.
Thank you sir hope your work and business expand. Greatness is your portion on a daily basis. You inspire many to pursue their dream, so good to see you pave the way.
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Hello. How was the day? Mine was fine, and I was reading the testimonies people are presenting about you. You are great, and I want to learn from you. I am really impressed with your work, experience and expertise. Continue helping us.
The book Launch speech On 25 November, my co-authors and I had to present our speeches. One week later, this is what people had to say… Mwebantu…who has @Charles Kaluwasha speech at the book launch 😄 It was POWERFUL-Cranston I tell you, that was captivating I don’t think people remembered to press record. For the book am reading ba @Charles Kaluwasha story and while reading am imagining it being told just like the speech 😀. -Cranston I hope someone captured it; maybe check the zoom recording as well. He was on fire 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥 It was fun to listen to. –Cranston Personally, I can confess…after technical difficulties and having to personally meet and speak to the VIPs I invited…it was VERY refreshing to sit in the audience and just take in what you had to say. It was so good 😄-Cranston Yeah, he was on fire…I thought he was going to make a book launch altar call 😄. There was so much energy, and time was not our best ally; otherwise, we were going to spend a night there.- Paster Kennedy Phiri The story is also good, so authentic and inspiring. If I was not yet abroad, that is the story I would like to read. The speech made me want to read it first, despite being the last reading 📖.-Theresa D’Amaden
Hi Charles, I hope this message finds you well. I have been inspired by your achievements as the Founder & CEO of CJI, a Real Estate Investor & Developer, as well as your status as a #1 Amazon Bestselling author. Your entrepreneurial skills and dedication to delivering exceptional results for over 10 years are truly commendable. As a mortgage broker, I understand the importance of having a strong network of professionals to support and empower success. I wanted to reach out and offer my assistance as well as explore potential collaboration opportunities with you. Whether you need assistance with home loan refinancing, business loans, or any other financial solutions, our team is here to help. We specialize in tailoring our services to meet the unique needs of busy professionals like yourself. With our expertise, we can provide the support you need to fuel your real estate ventures and continue your entrepreneurial journey. Additionally, I wanted to highlight our referral program. We believe in the power of collaboration and building strong relationships within the industry. If you come across any individuals or clients who could benefit from our services, we would be more than happy to assist them. Likewise, we would be glad to refer clients to you whenever there is an opportunity to leverage your exceptional entrepreneurial skills, coaching, and mentorship. I would love to have a quick chat with you to discuss how we can collaborate and support each other’s success. Looking forward to the opportunity to collaborate with you, Charles, and empower each other’s entrepreneurial journeys. Jay Menon www.jjmfinancespecialists.com.au
Congratulations partner on the 6th year anniversary of your hard work. Your ability to embrace open-mindedness, being passionate, having a sense of selflessness and fulfilment of life; with the greatest desire to impact others, are the greatest keys that have helped you to record such an amazing achievement.