Grammarly
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| Type | Corporation |
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| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Founder(s) | Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn |
| Key people | Brad Hoover (CEO) |
| Products | Grammar checker, Spell checker |
| Services | Proofreading, Plagiarism detection |
| Slogan(s) | "The World's Best Grammar Checker" |
| Website |
Grammarly |
| Alexa rank | 1,832 (December 2015)[1] |
| Registration | Optional (required for higher privileges) |
| Users | 3,000,000 plus |
| Current status | Active |
Grammarly is a writing-enhancement platform developed by Grammarly, Inc., and launched in 2009. Grammarly's proofreading and plagiarism-detection resources[2] check for a writer's adherence to more than 250 grammar rules.[3][4][5]
History
The company was founded in 2009 by Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn.[5][6] Brad Hoover, the company's chief executive officer, is an investor with a background in engineering who learned about Grammarly while searching for an automated proofreading tool for his own writing.[6]
Grammarly, Inc., is headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Kiev, Ukraine.[6]
Features
Grammarly carries out more than 250 grammar checks;[7] it proofreads and detects plagiarism in the process and finally provides users with a list of possible errors for correction.[8]
During its text review, Grammarly presents potential errors one at a time, with commonly confused words or faulty sentences highlighted in light red and a text box below offering an explanation that provides good and bad examples and suggests corrections. Grammarly also provides citations when it detects plagiarism.[8] Users can click on a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" icon to let Grammarly know whether the result was helpful.[2]
Other features of Grammarly include:[7][8][9]
- A grammar checker that can analyze general, business, academic, technical, creative and casual writings.
- A contextual spell checker that determines the appropriate spelling of a word as it is used in a sentence; thus, it finds misspelled words and also identifies correctly spelled yet incorrectly used words.[10]
- Grammarly Plug-in for Microsoft Office, which adds Grammarly to Microsoft Word and Outlook.
- An online Grammarly Handbook resource covering what the Grammarly platform does in checking grammar and syntax.
- Google Chrome extension, which spell check and grammar check as you type online.
Recognition
In the 2013 Best Online Grammar Checker Comparisons and Reviews, Grammarly won the TopTenReviews Gold Award, with a rating of 8.88.[2][11]
See also
References
- ↑ "Grammarly.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- 1 2 3 "Grammarly – Review". TopTenReviews. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
- ↑ Geeta Padmanabhan (September 21, 2011). "Cool tool". The Hindu (The Hindu Group). Retrieved December 24, 2012.
- ↑ Lee Chang-sup (May 1, 2012). "English again in New Year’s resolution?". The Korea Times. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
- 1 2 Cheryl Conner (October 21, 2012). "I Don't Tolerate Poor Grammar". Forbes (Forbes publishing). pp. 1–2. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
- 1 2 3 Don Tennant. "How Cloud Power Is Improving Written English". IT Business Edge by QuinStreet. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
- 1 2 Mark Gibbs (July 31, 2014). "Grammarly: How to make your organization's messaging make sense". Network World. Retrieved August 17, 2014.
- 1 2 3 "Grammarly – Specifications". TopTenReviews. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
- ↑ Wanda Richards. "Need Help with Grammar?". TopTenReviews. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
- ↑ Shirley Kuiper and Dorinda A. Clippinge (2012). Contemporary Business Reports (5th/International ed.). Cengage Learning. pp. 104–105. ISBN 9781133435334. Retrieved May 1, 2013.
- ↑ "2013 Best Online Grammar Checker Comparisons and Reviews". TopTenReviews. Retrieved December 24, 2012.