How To Check Your English Grammar with the ProWritingAid App

About this video

This sponsored walkthrough shows how to check English grammar with ProWritingAid, which Roberts describes in the company’s words as a grammar checker, style editor, and writing mentor in one package. He discloses the video is fully sponsored by ProWritingAid, with free access or 20% off premium via dalelinks.com/prowritingaid, and notes integrations including Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Scrivener, Open Office, Chrome, and Firefox. Focusing on Word, he installs the add-in, restarts Word, signs in, and edits a roughly 1,100-word manuscript, noting ProWritingAid handles anything below 10,000 words with no issues but runs slower and laggier above that. He demonstrates suggestion dropdowns, ignoring suggestions, and the ‘disable rule’ option for keeping deliberate slang or vernacular, then works through reports for repeats, structure — the tool flagged that 40% of his sentences start with the subject compared to 61% in published writing — and consistency, including inconsistent capitalization of ‘blog.’ A plagiarism check found 1.4% non-original text and 0% non-original quoted text, which he says matters because Amazon KDP can push back content it finds freely available online. He stresses ProWritingAid is not a replacement for a human editor if you plan to publish.

Key takeaways

• Setup in Word: create an account, download and install the ProWritingAid add-in, restart Word, and sign in
• The tool handles documents below 10,000 words smoothly but gets slower and laggier on longer documents, per Roberts
• Suggestions can be accepted, fixed manually, ignored, or handled with ‘disable rule’ to keep deliberate slang or style
• Reports cover repeats, sentence structure, and consistency such as inconsistent capitalization, beyond basic grammar
• Roberts recommends still using a human editor after ProWritingAid before publishing

Episode details: published January 21, 2021 · 10:15 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dale L. Roberts’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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