The Trouble with Grammar Transcends Grammarly- 018

I am always amazed at how these grammar checking sites bring down your morale. No wonder why some writers are divorcing from these platforms. I tried grammarly and ran into some issues that were difficult to reconcile. My text in readability compared to The New York Times on the manifesto write; however the quality of my writing reached a performance score of a measly 74 out of 100.

To test this thing out further; I created a 2nd account to check for grammar errors again and scored 79; better than 79% of all texts checked supposedly but not without significant issues both critical and advanced. With minor tweaks of my own unrelated to their recommendations, I became an 80; still with a plethora of "writing issues" from wordy sentences to wrong or missing prepositions.

Firstly; why were different scores given on the exact same text? Secondly, since when did my use of grammar become so mediocre? Or have the rules changed in such a substantial manner, since I was last in the classroom? Maybe grammarly is just that finicky or rigid, which could very well be the case.

Since when did it become problematic if you don’t include a comma before and? They also cited me for awkward phrases but if I follow this new school of grammar, then my piece just shifts too drastically in intended meaning. Grammarly doesn't track the nuances of personal style, which is one of its drawbacks.

Consequently, I’m old enough to remember when grammar was spoken not written. The focus was predominantly on spoken language; not written grammar, in terms of how people engaged with it. So much of grammatical structure was extracted from how people spoke and often; how people spoke would never fly in a formal manner, such as writing on paper...the irony.