Category Archives: Grammarly

Happy Valentine’s Day from the folks at Grammarly ~ Infographic

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Happy Valentine’s Day

 

Grammarly, the team behind the popular writing app, partnered with the online dating website eHarmony to determine whether the writing skills displayed in people’s online dating profiles affect their chances of finding romance. Grammarly summarized the results, along with other online dating statistics, in an infographic.

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Thanks to the folks at https://www.grammarly.com/spell-check for sharing this fun infographic.

 

Cards – to send them or not to send them… that is the question

Do you worry and wonder about sending cards at this time of year? Okay, this might be a bit late because most of the mailing deadlines have long since passed.

Well the folks at https://www.grammarly.com/grammar-check have put together a couple of tongue-in-cheek infographics to help you through this troublesome dilemma.

The New Adult…

 

Holiday Card Flow Chart Infographic1

The Pro Adult…

 

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And some fun facts about holiday cards...

  • Americans send 1.6 billion holiday cards annually [source]
  • Women purchase an estimated 80% of all greeting cards [source]
  • E-cards have become an environmentally friendly alternative to paper cards [source]
  • Christmas cards originated in London, where Sir Henry Cole commissioned the first in 1843. [Source]
    • Two batches totaling 2,050 cards were printed and sold that year for a shilling each. [Source]
  • Despite the separation of church and state, it’s customary for the President and First Lady to send White House Christmas cards each holiday season. [source]
    • Calvin Coolidge issued the first official Christmas message to the American people in 1927. [source]

About Grammarly…

Grammarly is a simple and powerful writing app that corrects more types of spelling and grammar mistakes than any other software on the market. The product suite comprises: the Grammarly Editor online editing tool; browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari; Grammarly for Microsoft Office; and Grammarly for your Desktop, a convenient desktop editor for Mac and PC.

As a company, Grammarly’s mission is to improve communication among the world’s more than 2 billion native and non-native English writers. Millions of registered users worldwide trust Grammarly’s products, which are also licensed by more than 600 leading universities and corporations. Grammarly is an Inc. 500 company with offices in San Francisco and Kyiv.

 

 

Five Mistakes to Avoid in Your NaNoWriMo Novel from Grammarly

Avoid these Mistakes…

The folks at https://www.grammarly.com/grammar-check have put together this handy infographic to help you avoid these five mistakes in your NaNoWriMo novel.

Five Mistakes To Avoid in Your NaNoWriMo Novel Infographic

But don’t stop and look for them now. Wait until December or even January to proofread your epic tome. Get the words “on paper” first then proofread and edit in the coming months.

Happy NaNoWriMo-ing!

FIFTY SHADES OF GRAMMAR – INFOGRAPHIC

With all the hype surrounding the release of the movie Fifty Shades of Gray, the folks at grammarly.com, have put together this infographic to show that the writing might not be as bad as the critics claimed. See how it stacks up against some of the classics in the romance novel genre.

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Try the “grammar checker” at grammarly.com to see how your writing stacks up. There’s more to Grammarly than just grammar checks. Plagiarism checks, punctuation, context and much more.