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What does Grammarly Premium do?
There are few programs that match the usefulness of Grammarly Premium.
Though the free version will solidly proofread most people’s writing to a level they’re content with, if you’re a professional writer in any capacity – blogger, author, professor, or college student – the premium version offers so much value.
In addition to the error scanning that the free version provides, the paid version of Grammarly also looks at:
- Consistency of voice – you want to avoid using passive voice when writing, and weeding it out on your own can be difficult. The software fixes this and gives you suggestions to change your sentence structure to be more active.
- Grammarly Premium helps make your writing more engaging by removing useless words like “really”, since they don’t add value to your piece. This version also helps you write punchier sentences by avoiding adverbs that hedge, like “potentially”. You want to write authoritative, confident pieces that engage and resonate with a reader. Grammarly helps you do exactly that.
- The tone of your article can convey a totally different meaning, depending on the point you wish to make. Grammarly Premium checks for tone in a much deeper manner than the free version and helps you steer it in the direction you want. If you’re writing a research proposal, for instance, you probably don’t want it to sound informal and it will catch that by evaluating your piece based on your chosen genre or niche.
- It can catch unintentional plagiarism by scanning the web for similar phrasing.
- Suggestions to enhance your word usage, and this goes both ways. If you’re using simplistic language, it will help punch up your copy, but if you’re being overly verbose, it will help you tone it down.
It does this by helping you in the short term, making your current writing more clear by checking it for you, but in the long term, you’ll start to catch these things on your own.
As you learn that you don’t need to use adverbs, or that you’re not using commas correctly, your writing will start to improve naturally.
Is Grammarly Premium worth the investment?
In my opinion, it is completely worth the investment, if you write for a living of any kind. As a full time blogger, I can’t imagine not having it.
For many people, the free version will provide so much value and that will be enough. Everyday writing doesn’t need to be perfect, it just needs to look professional, clean, and make sense.
For someone who relies on exceptional writing to live, however, Grammarly Premium has the potential to dramatically elevate your copy, essays, research papers, and so much more.
Grammarly – both the free and premium versions – will not take someone who is a terrible writer and turn them into Hemmingway.
Both will, however, make your writing clear and concise, helping to avoid tones that are inappropriate, spelling and grammar mistakes, and bloated, heavy writing that talks a lot without accomplishing its purpose.
No matter how or why you write, Grammarly will be a huge benefit to you on whatever device or platform you use.
