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Grammarly is wrong so often that I wouldn’t want to automatically apply fixes. My typical Grammarly workflow involves a rejecting most of its suggestions and ap
by Veen 5y ago
Grammarly is wrong so often that I wouldn’t want to automatically apply fixes. My typical Grammarly workflow involves a rejecting most of its suggestions and approving the small proportion that actually make sense.
- mavelikara 5y agoWhat are some examples of suggestions Grammarly makes that you have to reject?
- Veen 5y agoFrom the document I'm working on now: - Your sentence may be unclear or hard to follow. Consider rephrasing. (the suggested rephrasing makes no sense and is ungrammatical). - Add a comma (the suggestion is to add a comma between "the" and "most" in the phrase "the most common") - Choose a different word (the suggestion is to exchange "heavy" for "cumbersome" when the topic is the weight of steel chain). - Variety (the suggestion is to swap "hooks" for "angles" when the topic is lifting hooks that attach to steel chains) Plus, I regularly see crap such as in this image. I've no idea what it thinks it's doing. https://i.postimg.cc/BvRfnfnP/image.png https://i.postimg.cc/BvRfnfnP/image.png Other oddities include Grammarly disagreeing with itself. I apply a suggestion, and then Grammarly flags its own change and suggests I change it back to the original or to something else.
- watwut 5y agoVariety in the context of technical document is wrong by default. You are not supposed to use variety of terms, you are supposed to pick one and stick with it.
- Veen 5y agoIndeed, which prompts me to mention one of the most annoying things about Grammarly. It irritates me no end when I deliver technical writing for a client and they respond with a list of "errors" of that sort after they have run it through Grammarly.
- posterboy 5y agoa is predominently singulair, it is grating to see it in collocation with an adverbial phrase involving a quantifier "most", though in the sense that the rejecting is supposed to be one simple train of thought, it has a certain sense of understatement in this case. Still, it's lacking grammatical agreement with the "suggestions", which is a fairly common problem in fact. It's understandable that a rigid rule of grammar would advise against it. It's called grammarly, not semanticly.
- Veen 5y agoWell, thank you, but that error was the result of a quick rephrasing. I modified one aspect of the sentence to maintain parallelism between the two gerunds without making sure it still made grammatical sense. I should have removed the article. I'm more diligent in a professional context than I am in off-the-cuff HN comments. (To return the favour, "a is predominently singulair, it is grating to see it in collocation..." includes a comma splice and a misspelling — singulair.)
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- grvdrm 5y agoMostly agree with you but I'll say it this way: make sure you RE-READ your writing after applying Grammarly's suggestions. I ask this question throughout the re-read: would a human write like this? If not, I toss the suggestion or rewrite. But the suggestions certainly help illuminate moments when neither my writing nor Grammarly's suggestions make sense.
- isneu 5y agoPretty interesting conversation. Thank you Veen for starting it! :)