PG is making an exception to his normal practice of flitting here and there to find posting material for TPV. All posts today are from the Grammarly Blog.
PG acknowledges there are several different grammar-checkers available to authors. He has glanced at a handful, but never been seduced by any of them, except Grammarly.
Grammarly was founded in April 1, 2009. At first, it was named Sentenceworks. The founders were Max Lytvyn and Alex Shevchenko. The programmer who wrote the first version of Grammarly was Dmytro Lider. If you note a certain something about these names, you’d be correct. They’re all from Ukraine.
PG was the first person he knew who used Grammarly. He suspects he bought the first release, but doesn’t remember the exact date of his discovery. Regardless of when it happened, for PG, Grammarly was love at first sight.
Grammarly has been available on every computer, personal or corporate, PG has used ever since. He’s used it on a gazillion legal documents and everything else that he has shown to anybody else. He just discovered, there’s a version of Grammarly that runs on his iPhone and iPad, so he’ll be getting those apps as soon as he finishes this blog.
PG just realized that he needed to see if there is a Grammarly plug-in for TPV post creation.
He’ll be back tomorrow.
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PG does have Grammarly on his Chrome browser and Grammarly for Windows and his iPad and iPhone.
Obviously, PG needs to lie down and take a nap.
I bought the paid version of Grammarly years ago. I was never able to get it to do much. It won’t update. I think I got it to update to v3.0, but anything past that appeared to be impossible. Thus I deleted it, never again to be installed or run.
The lifetime version of ProWritingAid works for me, time after time. Updates come automatically with the click of the mouse. It integrates into everything I need, including Scrivener, Word, and others.
“The latest version I use still supports copying and pasting text into into a Grammarly form, which then analyses it and suggests corrections, etc.”
See, this is what I expected going in, but apparently the free version no longer works this way? Or any other way, that I can determine? I swear I’m not computer illiterate but this “program” has me stumped. I’ll check one of those videos. Thanks for responding!
Since people will be likely discussing Grammarly a bit here, and since this is one of the few blogs/sites I check daily, perhaps some kind user could explain Grammarly to me. What is it supposed to do? Because when I downloaded it, it didn’t do ANYTHING. Literally zero functionality. There is no “widget”. You can’t open documents with it. Opening Grammarly itself just provides a link to their website. Is the “free” version not really free and I need to be paying someone something for it to work? Is it all a hoax and everyone just plays along, and I’m the only one not in on the joke? I’m wholly baffled. (Using my secondary ID/email to post so that when the obvious answer is provided I’m less embarrassed.)
K. – I’ve been using Grammarly (paid version) for so many years, I have no idea how the current free version works.
Basically, Grammarly is something like a very persnickity high school English teacher who makes certain all your punctuation, grammar, spelling, etc. is absolutely correct.
The latest version I use still supports copying and pasting text into into a Grammarly form, which then analyses it and suggests corrections, etc.
I just entered, “learning how to use grammarly” into YouTube and a whole bunch of beginners videos showed up. You may want to watch/listen to some of those.