How many times you have felt embarrassed when someone pointed grammar or punctuation mistakes in your article?
I am sure; it might have happened a quite lot of time if you write content for the web.
So, would you still like to keep making those silly mistakes?
Of Course Not!
If you are a blogger or a writer, you must have noticed that despite being a good writer, you make silly mistakes at times. Making mistakes helps you gain experience, but making same mistakes again and again is foolishness.
If we talk about Punctuations, it looks to be small things but just one mistake changes the whole meaning of a sentence. For example,
Let’s eat Rohan = This means to eat Rohan [Wrongly Used]
Let’s eat, Rohan = Inviting Rohan to eat. [Correctly Used]
You can see in above example how a small comma mistake changed the complete meaning of the sentence.
Now if we talk about grammar, just check the below example that I have found people make frequently:
Did you got the payment? = [Wrong use of verb form]
Did you get the payment? = [Correct use of verb form]
Above examples are just to show you how people make mistakes. You can find so many errors that are made by many writers and bloggers.
We must do something to get rid of these embarrassing mistakes.
So what do to do to stop making such mistakes that ruin the charm of your blog posts.
The best solution everyone would recommend you is to proofread your articles more than once. It’s indeed the great way to find the mistakes and correct them, but being human we still leave some minor errors many a times that don’t come into our notice even after multiple times of proofreading.
I would recommend using a grammar and punctuation checker tool along with the manual proofreading.
Whenever I write an article, I proofread it 3-4 times at the regular interval of time because if you proofread just after writing the content you won’t be able to find most of the errors. Thus, it is recommended to take a break after writing and then do the proofreading task.
Once I am done with the manual proofreading, I use an online grammar and punctuation tool to check if I had made some mistakes. If I did, I would correct them with the help of that tool. It helps me learn as well because when I notice what I am mistaking, I try to get rid of that particular error.
In this blog post, I am going to share 10 Best Online Grammar and Punctuation Checker Tools:
1. Grammarly
Grammarly is the best tool I can recommend for all your proofreading needs as it checks the content for grammatical mistakes, Punctuation mistakes, Spelling mistakes and even checks for plagiarism.
I have been using Grammarly for more than eight months now, and I am quite happy with it. Before using it, I was making silly mistakes that I used to miss while proofreading, but it made my life easier by finding all the errors quickly and efficiently. Big thanks to the creators of Grammarly.
Let’s take a look at the key features of Grammarly:
Spelling check:
Spelling mistakes are very common. When you use Grammarly, it checks the content for all kind of spelling errors and suggest you the corrections.
The best thing it offers is you can check the content within your word document with the help of its Word Add-on.
Grammar Check:
If you are a non-native English writer, there are more chances of making grammar mistakes. I don’t mean that everyone makes mistakes, but there are more chances of mistakes when English is not your first language. These errors can be embarrassing at some moments.
Grammarly saves you from getting embarrassed by suggesting the grammatical errors in your content.
Vocabulary Enhancement:
I am in love with this feature of Grammarly because it suggests different alternate words every time. Due to this, you can make your content better with diversified words. In a 500 words article, a few words get repeated many times naturally. Grammarly suggests you the alternate words for them when it detects a particular word is repeatedly used. That’s where you realize that you have used a particular word multiple times. Thanks to this excellent feature that saves you from ruining the content’s beauty and flow.
Punctuation Check:
I mentioned earlier in this article that a small punctuation mistake can change the whole meaning of sentences. Therefore, you must not make punctuation mistakes often. Grammarly also checks the content for misplaced punctuation or other punctuation errors. This feature also helps you learn more about the punctuations by giving suggestions every time.
Plagiarism Check:
Plagiarism check is an extra feature provided by Grammarly, which enables you check your content for plagiarism. Even if you get articles written from some writers, you can verify that for plagiarism with this tool as well.
2. After The Deadline
After the Deadline or Polishmywriting is an Automattic (Creator of WordPress) product. It is a nice grammar tool for your all grammatical proofing needs. I have recently come to know about this tool and tried working with it, and it worked well for some of my proofing needs.
Key Features:
Grammar check: While writing we leave some grammatical errors in our content that are not detectable by MS Word most of the times. So use this tool to find out those mistakes and correct them.
Style check: Apart from Grammar check, it also understand your writing style and accordingly gives you suggestions to improve the content.
Spelling check: It checks the content for all spelling errors. It marks the spelling errors with red color, and when you click on them, you will see suggestions in a dropdown.
Passive voice detection is one of the main features of this tool. This particular thing is highly focused while creating this tool because it is made by the creators of WordPress which is a blogging platform where people write content every day. They must have found that most of the people heavily use passive voice, whereas it is a good practice to use Active voice in the blog posts. Thus, they have created this tool that helps you find out all the passive voice within the content so that you can try converting them into Active Voice.
3. Onlinecorrection.com
Just another tool for online grammar and spelling check that you can use to check your content.
It marks the spelling mistakes with Red and other grammatical diction error with green. It is not an advanced tool, but it’s cool to use at the primary level.
4. White Smoke
White Smoke is one of the best grammar checker tools after Grammarly that checks the content, give ratings out of 100 and gives suggestions to correct and improve your content.
Features of White Smoke:
Checks for grammatical errors
Checks for Spelling errors
Checks for punctuation errors.
Use it on any device whether computer, tablet, or smartphone.
Plagiarism check feature is also available.
You can see the full specification of this excellent tool in above screenshot. White Smoke is an excellent tool for bloggers. It can be an alternative to Grammarly.
5. Paper Rater
Now this is a tool that I recommend you use before putting up your content in your blog’s editor for publishing because it can improve your content in a professional way.
Features of Paper Rater:
It checks the content for grammatical errors.
It checks the content for spelling errors
It gives suggestion to improve the style of the writing
It suggests different word choices to the overall improvement of the content.
It marks spelling errors with red and diction errors in green. When you click on the marked words, it defines the error name as well. You can see in the above screenshot that it has written “Spelling” that means it is a spelling issue. It also suggests correct spelling in the dropdown so you can just click on the right suggestions and correct the errors.
6. Language Tool
Language Tool is a must-have tool for those who work with multiple languages as it supports 32 languages that mean you can test the content in those 32 languages for grammatical mistakes.
Just paste the content, and click on “Check Text” button.
Look at the above screenshot; it marked a word red that is misspelled. It is an advanced open source proofreading program for bloggers and writers.
7. Ginger
Ginger is a top-notch proofreading tool that checks the content for all possible grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors. It offers desktop software that you can use for proofing your content.
Features of Ginger:
Grammar Checker
Sentence Rephraser
Personal Trainer
Text to Speech
Translation
Dictionary
Spell Check
It is a must have tool for bloggers and content writers. It can do almost all the things that you need for proofing your content.
8. Gregory’s punctuation checker tool
This punctuation checker tool is different from other tools. It does not mark the texts with red or green underlines rather it gives you a summary of your content.
I have written some words in this tool’s editor. Now look at what it provided me as result:
It checks the commas mostly, and that is great because most of the writers do comma mistake either less or more. You must make use of this tool so that you will know whether you have used enough commas in your content or not.
9. Proofreadbot.com
Proofreadbot is a basic grammar tool for proofreading your articles for common grammatical, style and spelling errors.
It marks the text with different colors. When you mouse over them, then you will see the explanation of particular errors. This is a good tool to use at an intermediate level.
10. Spellcheckplus.com
Spellcheckplus is another grammar checker tool that I would like to recommend to the writers. Check the below screenshot in which it has marked the issues with different colors.
Spellcheckerplus also creates a summary of the content for different possible errors such as word choice, word form, and spelling.
This tool does not check the content for wordiness and plagiarism but still it offers a lot being a free tool.
Final Words
Being a human, we all make mistakes at some point. Even professional writers make many grammar mistakes at times. Thus, if you are a writer, you must use a grammar and punctuation tool to avoid errors in the content.
I have tried my best to list 10 best Grammar and Punctuation Checker tools for you. I hope you liked this list.
Note: I am a die-hard fan of Grammarly, and I am a premium user of this tool. It helps me correct all the small and big grammar and punctuation errors quickly and efficiently.
Do you use any one of these ten tools?
Which is your favorite grammar and punctuation checker tool?
Share your views and feedback in the comments below. Thanks for reading this blog post.
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