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That wouldn't work for me because many of Grammarly's corrections in my documents are clearly wrong. I'm using the Pro version. Grammarly is good for making suggestions but unusable for blind spell checking. It just doesn't know enough words, and some of its grammatical and style features also sometimes go astray.

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This is my experience as well. I primarily use it to add missing commas, articles, etc. Sometimes it gives good suggestions for conciseness but I usually accept only about 50% of these suggestions.

That is great. I do a lot of reading before and only leave rooms for general suggestions such as punctuation, caps, spellings. I'd say I accept about 90%-95% of the suggestions.

Particularly in technical or STEM related writing I sometimes need to repeat a word more than what Grammarly likes, and can’t replace it with a synonym because it has a specific meaning (eg “training” in the context of AI). I also try to avoid passive voice as much as possible, but sometimes when talking about software, techniques or processes, it’s the clearest way.

Still, I’m quite happy to have Grammarly’s suggestions.

Cheers @elondaits :)

I'm glad someone else said this. Would you agree that Grammarly is significantly worse than it used to be? This has been my experience lately-- that it makes nonsensical suggestions.

Not to mention it doesn't work with HN or FB.

mmHm... I see your use case. I hope you find a way to improve your efficiency while working. Cheers!

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