



To review a suggestion, you can click on an underlined issue in the email message or click the suggestion in the Grammarly pane - these two parts of the window stay in sync and clicking either one has the same effect - either expands the suggestion in the Grammarly pane to show you more information and give you choices: It arranges these notes so the suggested changes line up horizontally with the error in the email message, so you can see them more or less side-by-side. Grammarly also displays the suggested edits in the Grammarly pane.

That said, you can see videos where I show the differences in between both versions and cover some of the current updates. For details on how to upgrade, click "Premium issues" at the bottom of the pane. In this Grammarly review, I focused on the premium variation of Grammarly as I have actually had a membership for numerous years. If you upgrade to the Premium subscription you get additional feedback on readability, vocabulary, and writing style. There are two kinds of suggestions: "basic issues," which are available using the free edition of Grammarly, and "premium issues," which require upgrading to a paid Grammarly subscription.īasic issues are mainly limited to grammar, spelling, and punctuation. If you’re not careful, even the most careful eye can mistake the following sentences for passive voice.The Grammarly ribbon is most useful if you subscribe to Grammarly Premium.Īs you work, you can see the total number of suggestions at the very bottom of the Grammarly pane. Sometimes what looks like passive voice isn’t passive voice at all. Passive: Bob Dylan was injured in a motorcycle accident.Īctive: A motorcycle accident injured Bob Dylan.Īctive: Don’t allow anything to fool you! Passive voice misuse Rewriting these sentences in the active voice renders them sterile, awkward, or syntactically contorted. In each of the sentences below, the passive voice is natural and clear. The above examples lean toward the literary side of things, but don’t forget that there are times when the passive voice is useful and necessary in daily life. It makes sense that a statement declaring independence would focus on the people who get that independence, after all. “All men” (and these days, women, too) get boosted to the front of the phrase because their equality and rights are the focus. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” -The Declaration of Independence, 1776
