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It’s Time We Start Using Grammarly Cautiously
Writing tools like Grammarly are like ketchup on fries. They add flavor to the original dish but overdoing it makes it soggy.
Having used Grammarly free for about five years now, I subscribed to the paid version a few months ago. Catching semantic edits that missed the naked eye and testing their inbuilt plagiarism scanner is all I was looking for.
Fast forward to a few weeks, and for all intents and purposes, I’m opting out of almost all of Grammarly’s Premium features. Don’t get me wrong. The plagiarism checker is amazingly accurate. But the advanced edits are doing more harm than good to my writing.
(Note: This is not an anti-brand article. I just want to point out the flaws of an AI editor. I speak about Grammarly because that's what I use to edit my articles.)
It makes writing monotonous and robotic
Grammarly suggests the same readability improvements to all texts without adherence to style or context. It uses a set of inbuilt “if-then” sentence structure rules to suggest edits that improve readability. Readability edits don’t mean your grammar is incorrect. Rather, they convert complex sentences to simple ones to…
