The Most common problem faced by non native English Speaker is Grammar part of English. This case is also true for me, I’m not a native English speaker and I tend to make lots of Common Grammatical errors and that is something bad for my blog and for writing.
Though I have been learning and trying to get rid of common English errors which I make, Some of them are :
- Then and than
- There and Their
- Space after comma (Required)
- Space before comma (Not required )
- Complex sentences
I know there are many other mistakes which I make, and I’m not ashamed of accepting it, because this way I will learn and improve my writing. I have compiled a list of Online tools which you can use to check your Grammar and make your post better.
Spell checker is not an issue, since I use Windows Live writer , Mozilla Firefox and Wordpress dashboard to Publish articles, so if I make any minor or major mistake, It has to pass from 3 filter channels, and that make it easy to find out the problem.
This is one of my favorite tool to check for Grammatical error on the fly. I just need to add the post and it will check for possible grammatical errors.
This is another useful tool, check and find out most of common errors I make. You should give it a try and let me know how is it for you.
I guess you may not need to use this one. If you are using tools which I mentioned above, though it’s good to add another useful one in your list.
Do you use any other tool? Do let us know. If you find this post worth sharing, don’t forget to stumble and tweet this post.
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Suffering from same problem
Awesome! post =)
Thanks for your comment Ali. I’m sure this will help you.
Me too suffering from this problem – Thanks man for such an useful post !
Thanks for the share ..I too commonly make those mistakes you mentioned!
I understand Sham, I’m sure these tools will help you.
Harsh I wanted to ask you sth…..How am I supposed to submit a post for approval? I couldn’t find any button/link on the dashboard. Moreover, could you add a link for logging into the site?
Hey Samir this is not the best place to ask questions, you could have used Contact form. Any ways, when you write a post, on the right hand side you will see submit for review button, use it. And regarding login you can use
http://www.shoutmeloud.com/wp-admin
Feel free to use contact form if you have any questions.
Regards
Harsh
I’m usually having problem with is/are and have/has, so this will work perfectly for me. PolishMywriting seems to be exactly what I was looking for.
That’s what I’m up to Stefan, I hope this links will help you and others including myself.
Hi Harsh,
Thanks for the great resource buddy.
This is the biggest and common mistake of many bloggers but the resource you have provided is really useful for me.
Thanks for your comment Surender and I’m glad that you find it useful.
Great sharing Harsh.
Yes, we use firefox and wordpress to correct the spell errors, but for grammatical errors. i don’t. I will check the 1st website you mentioned and use it before i publish next post.
Nihar I’m sure this will be a easter egg for you and will be helpful for your upcoming post.
Regards
Harsh
Dude!!
I tried the top 2 but they does not seem to work fine and I’m 100% sure about that!!
Vamsi if you can be more specific what problem you faced with them, I started using them from last 3-4 days and I find them working perfectly fine. Though we can’t expect them to give us 100% error free grammar. Meanwhile I will appreciate if you can use your name while commenting, this will make it easy for us to reply to comments by name.
Thanks for the share buddy, I use Microsoft Word 2008 to check spelling and Grammer. I am going to use all the tools suggested by you.
Even I used to use MS word some time back but its not that great and I wanted something much better and easy to use and obviously anywhere . Probably you will enjoy above mentioned tools..
I’ve been looking for the grammar checking tool for long but I couldn’t found it, I have no problem for spell check since I’m using Firefox. I’ve tried to use the PolishMyWriting, that’s cool! Thanks for sharing these tools!
Thanks for your comment Lee.
I’m glad you find these tools useful.
nice tool this…good find Harsh
Thanks Tushar, I’m glad you find it useful.
yeah way more than spell checks one needs grammar cheking tools as well. because spell checker is common and we tend to miss out on d latter. For instance your recent article titled “How to Select Right Affiliate Program” has a grammatical error in the opening sentence lol… So do get hold of a good tool. for pros like u problem doesnt lie in d language but simply typos n errors so get rid of dat. A most *primitive* approach is to use MS Word
Thanks for feedback Rajat and as I said earlier I know I make lots of mistakes, though its always make mistake and learn from it. So I’m on it. Might take some time..
Primary English speakers don’t realize how difficult the language is to pick up. Although English is my second language, I grew up in the US and am totally Americanized. I think in English but I know it’s much harder for those who have to do translations in their heads.
I personally couldn’t imagine posting in a different language.
nice post, English is certainly a problem for us who belongs to the “non native English” countries.
ms word pretty much solves the problem, but on some very important posts i try to hire a native English proofreader to correct my mistakes. lately, i have been following some good copywriting blogs to improve my English further,
I have the same problem everytime I want to write a post, especially a long one
I’m still happy with Microsoft Word although it can suggest weird things sometimes
I know Michael, earlier I also used to use MS word, though I didn’t realized until I saw the HTML code of copied post. That was probably the last time I used MS word for this purpose.
one of the main problem of bloggers like me
bt nw we have the solution thnx to harsh
Thanks for your comment Loveish and I’m glad you find it useful.
Few things that most of us normally forget.
W of World Wide Web will be in upper case always .
Always use “the” before the Internet.
“I” of the Internet will be in capital letter always..
many more small things ..
Though spellchecker is not so important, since I use Firefox spell check, I feel that the other tools are quite useful
I have seen many bloggers suffering from same problems. Very useful posts, sometimes even I make silly mistakes and this will be helpful to avoid those.
This is what i have been looking for.. thanks a lot