Improve Your English Writing and Grammar with This FREE Tool (Grammarly Review)

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Hello. This is Jack from tofluency.com and in this video, I'm going to show
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you a free tool that you can use to help you improve your writing and also your
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grammar. If you are learning English and you want to write in English, then it's wise
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to use a spell checker, however, most spell checkers are very basic; they only
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give you feedback on words that you misspelled. However, the tool I'm going to
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show you gives you feedback on your writing and it helps you improve your
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grammar too, and the best way for you to understand how beneficial this tool is, is
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for me to show you a few examples. Here we are inside the grammarly app and I'm
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going to type in three incorrect sentences to show you how Grammarly can
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give you feedback on incorrect English. So, the first one... I'm just going to put "he
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have done it." So, you probably recognize the mistake but it's gonna show you how it
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changes this for you. So, you can see over here it's suggesting to change have to has
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and we can click to change the verb form.
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We can also expand the card and it gives us information about the mistake: "It
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appears that the subject pronoun he and the verb have are not in agreement.
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Consider changing the verb." And we can click here and it changes it for us. The next
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one I'm going to show you is about a preposition. He told to me that he did it.
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Okay. So, we'll see what happens here when I type in this incorrect sentence... What it
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says... two things: Possibly confused say and tell.
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So, in this case, it's giving us a variation we can change told me
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to said to me and it's also telling us that it's a possibly redundant
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preposition. It appears that the proposition to may be unnecessary in this context.
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So, you can review the information and decide whether to delete it and if you
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click More then it gives us lots of examples and an explanation about the
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proposition to. So in this case, I'm going to delete the to and have it here:
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He told me that he did it. And the final one, I'm going to show you a comparison - the
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first conditional - and this is a mistake I see happen a lot: if we will leave now
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we will get there on time. We'll see what happens in this case. so it's just checking
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and it's going to give us the issue - and again it's telling us that we change
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will leave to leave - click to remove the modal and we can expand the card and it
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gives us an explanation: the sentence appears to incorrectly phrase the future
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real conditional. Consider removing the modal verb will. So we can do that and it
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does it for us. So, these are just three examples of how Grammarly can help and I
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want to show you a couple of other things too, because it doesn't only help your
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grammar and your writing, it can also help you with plagiarism. What this does
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is it finds unoriginal text by checking
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against a database of over eight billion web pages - so if you're writing something
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that's really important or if you're marking something for your learners, then
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you can check to see if it's plagiarized. There's also vocabulary
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enhancement as well - this gives you suggestions to help you vary your
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vocabulary - this is very beneficial as well - and finally, here, you can send (it) to
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a professional to get proof reading. This is obviously a paid thing and this is an
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add-on if you want to do this, but it's not necessary in most cases. So, as you
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just saw Grammarly gives you great feedback on your writing but not only that, it
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helps you improve your grammar. This is really beneficial it's going to help you
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improve your English - and the more you write t- he more you use this tool - the
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better you will get. If you download the browser extension it works in your email
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in social media and any other application that you use, so, it means you
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can constantly check your writing;
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constantly get feedback on your writing using this tool. So, click the link to
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check out gramley there is a free and a paid option available, and please let me
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know if this tool helps you... and if it does help you please share this video.
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Thank you for watching and I'll see you next time!
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