When I started working at my last position, one of my trainers recommended we install the Grammarly app. As an English major and experienced English professor, I thought, “Why should I use grammarly? I can proofread my own work just fine.”

A few days later, however, everything else this wonderful trainer had shared with me proved so beneficial I decided to give Grammarly a try. After all, it was free. What did I have to lose?

It only took one day of using Grammarly to become absolutely impressed. I loved how it made suggestions not only for grammatical errors but for other issues such as clarity and coherience. I also enjoyed seeing this app pop up on my online classroom posts and even my social media jottings.

I’ve been recommending it to all of my students ever since. I mentioned it recently to a new ESL class and found many were already using this great app.

When you are the writer, it is incredibly easy to overlook simple grammatical mistakes because your brain automatically fills them in for you. Grammarly takes care of that issue for you.

I was also impressed that, unlike the editor built into the word processing software I use, Grammarly caught word usage errors – such as using “red” for “read”.

And yes, I know that there is a grammatical error in the title – got your attention, didn’t it? And yes, my Grammarly app did catch the mistake.

If you haven’t tried Grammarly, give it a shot and let me know what you think in the comments section below. And if you have tried it, feel free to share what you like about this amazing tool.