The UNLP workshop generously included a 3 months trial of Grammarly Premium, and this was interesting.

• Shown in Fig. XXX

• Oxford commas — Grammarly wants them, I seem to not, but I should decide on one

• it specified the requirements, THE complexity of the story, … — when I list things I can’t use one article for all of them!

  • I would never write “I have a cat, dog, rabbit”, and that’s the same thing

• e.g. requires a comma only in American English

• I do A LOT of errors with duplicated words (the the)

  • A book I’m reading suggests using a different font and column width when proofreading just to catch such things

• I don’t know how to spell a number of English words

  • accommodate

• Many typos are acoustical ones if I’m tired, e.g. doc instead of dog

• I use too many words

  • A lot of my passive can be really neatly rephrased into not-passive, for shorter sentences with fewer words
  • verb+noun often can be just a better verb (like make predictions => predict)

• it removes many of my commas

  • I know it’s my Slavic language interference, but in many cases it makes the text way less clear imo

General impressions

• It even knows that written in python requires Python to be capitalized!