Benefits of Premium Grammarly

Last edit 10/21/2017

In the 21-st century world, English has become a primary language in the means of information exchange. Many aspects, from literature's abstract, electronic product user's guide, until a greetings letter to distant country acquaintance are often if not always written in this language. But still, it's not everybody's native tongue.

Just like other languages across the globe, it has a structure that rules specific elements so it can deliver any messages with clarity. This system is called grammar, and it took a few years to naturally understand the framework. Probably even more if it's not someone's first language.

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Grammarly is an app that claims to be able to give people the confidence of writing in English by correcting fault associated with grammar. This app can run in your browser and other three platforms.You can upload documents into your account and have them kept online. And this app is free.

But how do they profit?

The developer offers upgrade-plans into the premium for advanced features. You will not only get syntactically corrected in contextual spelling, grammar, and punctuation but also in the sentence structure and style. And there are more to go.

The document itself is in the general type by default, but in premium, you can change the type to:

Academic:

• General academic
• Essay 
• Report
• Case study
• Book/Literature review
• Research proposal
• Research results
• Dissertation

Business:

• General business
• Business letter
• Business email
• Report
• Memo
• Proposal
• Article/blog post

Technical:

• General technical
• End-user assistance document
• Technical documentation
• Marketing document

Medical:

• General medical
• Regulatory writing
• Educational writing

Creative:

• General creative
• Creative non-fiction
• Script
• Novel

Casual:

• General casual
• Personal email
• Personal blog post

The distinct visible traits I've seen are between the formal and non-formal type. It will correct "I'll" into "I will" in Technical but ignored in Casual.

The other addition is plagiarism checker. It said it could check against 8 billion web pages. My previous post about contact form page has 5% unoriginality with a portion of featured programming language text that highlighted. So it seems if you inserted some coding text in your article, they are probably already quoted in another place on the internet. It's quite useful even if I think this checker is not as sophisticated as Copyscape.

And there is this vocabulary enhancement. I'm quite satisfied with this as I lack vocabulary. It will suggest a replacement to an overused word like "long" to become "lengthy". But, it's just robot, consider your writing style because it might recommend you to change the vital phrase in your text.

The last premium feature is the professional proofreader. This is the only feature I couldn't try. Possibly because I become Premium by referral, or, it requires additional cost. It's supposed to be a proofreading feature that involves a professional human.

Also in premium, they will give you no-hassle money-back guarantee in case you are not fully satisfied in your subscription.

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Grammarly itself has four platforms such as app web-page, native Windows app, Microsoft office add-in, and chrome extension. So anything you write will be checked whether it's on twitter, facebook, or anything on those platforms. But, the chrome extension is not working well on HubPages.

Nevertheless, This app works exquisitely, but you still need human's proofreading as it can't entirely arrange your writings into the best semantically valid literature.