After the jubilee-jubbly typo on 10,000 souvenir tea sets to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee, here’s a guide from experts to ensure your emails are typo-free
A photo to commemorate Queen Elizabeth’s 70 years on the throne. The Platinum Jubilee memorabilia made in China had jubilee spelt as “jubbly”. Pic/Twitter
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Grammarly: This is a popular tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to review English grammar, punctuation, spelling, clarity, plagiarism and more.
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Aditi Tandon, production editor at Mongabay-India
Conscious Style Guide: To grow as a writer, it is important to be aware of how language evolves as society changes. This tool gets you thinking about inclusive and empowering choice of words in your writing.
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Grammar guru
Hemingway Editor: I often recommend Hemingway Editor for improving style and readability of write-ups. The website version is completely free to use.
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Kshitija Agrawal, editor, Full Circus
LanguageTool: It offers grammar checks in multiple languages besides English, and has cool features like checking numbers, names, and gender.
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Other tools
ProWritingAid: It is a powerful tool, for fiction writers. It checks grammar and offers insightful tips for improving sentence structure.
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Tara Khandelwal and Shreya Punj
The Purdue OWL: I often refer to Purdue Owl’s grammar techniques, especially the use of the comma. I find that one has to keep refreshing one’s memory and keep practising.
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Inputs from Shreya Punj, commissioning editor, Penguin India and admin, The Editor Recommends on Instagram, and Tara Khandelwal, founder at Bound
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