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Free Grammar Checker

Check your grammar online and see every correction, not just a cleaned-up result. Built for academic writing: paste up to 250 words of your essay, paper or application, and get grammar, spelling and punctuation errors fixed, each one listed with your original wording, the correction and a one-line explanation of the rule behind it.

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How to check your grammar online in three steps

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Paste your text

Up to 250 words per check: a paragraph or two of your essay, research paper, cover letter or email. The checker works sentence by sentence, so checking a long document section by section works well.

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Get corrections, not a rewrite

The grammar check fixes errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation while leaving your vocabulary, sentence order and voice exactly as you wrote them. Nothing is changed silently.

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Review each fix and copy the result

Every correction shows the original wording, the fix and the rule behind it, labeled by type. Review the list, then copy the corrected text straight into your document.

Why students and researchers use this grammar checker

Nothing changed silently

Most grammar checkers hand back corrected text and hope you trust it. This one lists every single fix beside your original wording, so you stay in control of your own writing.

Built for academic writing

Tuned for essays, research papers and theses: it respects discipline terminology, formal register and cautious academic phrasing instead of flagging them as errors.

Explanations that teach

Each fix carries a short note naming the rule: agreement, article use, word form. Check your writing regularly and the same errors stop appearing.

Your dialect, respected

The checker detects American or British English and keeps it, fixing only genuine inconsistencies. It never converts your spelling convention behind your back.

What a good grammar check should actually show you

A grammar checker has one job: find the errors, fix them, and show its work. The last part is the one most free grammar check tools skip. They return a cleaned-up block of text, and you are left diffing it against your original by eye, or worse, pasting it in on trust. For academic writing that is a real problem, because you are accountable for every sentence you submit, and because a checker that silently rewrites can shift a hedge into a claim or flatten a technical term into an everyday word without you noticing.

This tool takes the opposite approach. The correction engine reads your text the way a proofreader would, fixes grammar, spelling and punctuation, and then reports every change as a pair: what you wrote, what it became, and the rule that applied. Errors are labeled by type, so you can see at a glance whether your weak spot is subject-verb agreement, article use or comma placement. Over a semester of checking your own paragraphs, that feedback loop quietly does what a style guide never manages: it changes what you write the first time.

Grammar is also only one layer of mechanics. If punctuation is your recurring issue, the dedicated punctuation checker goes deeper on commas, semicolons and apostrophes, and the spell checker handles typos while telling you whether your spelling reads as American or British. For a graded piece of writing, the essay checker adds feedback on structure, clarity and tone on top of the mechanical fixes.

And when the document matters more than 250 words at a time, the ProofreaderPro editor proofreads complete manuscripts with the same philosophy scaled up: tracked changes on the whole document, accepted or rejected by you, line by line. The free checker on this page is the preview of how that works.

Example: four grammar fixes in one paragraph

Here is the kind of paragraph the checker sees every day, corrected in the editor's tracked-changes view.

You paste

The results of the experiment shows that the treatment have a significant effect. Neither of the groups were aware of it's assignment.

The corrected text

The results of the experiment showsshow that the treatment havehas a significant effect. Neither of the groups werewas aware of it'sits assignment.

What changed, and why
  • Grammar"shows" becomes "show"
    The subject is "results", which is plural; the verb agrees with it, not with the nearer noun "experiment".
  • Grammar"have" becomes "has"
    "Treatment" is singular.
  • Grammar"were" becomes "was"
    "Neither" takes a singular verb in formal writing.
  • Spelling"it's" becomes "its"
    The possessive has no apostrophe; "it's" is the contraction of "it is".

Three of the four are agreement errors, the most frequent grammar slip in academic prose because long noun phrases push the true subject far from its verb. The checker resolves each one against the head noun, then names the rule in the fix list.

Grammar checker FAQs

What does this grammar checker fix?
Grammar in the strict sense: subject-verb agreement, verb forms, articles, prepositions, pronoun reference and sentence construction, plus the spelling and punctuation errors that travel with them. Each fix is labeled by type, quotes your original wording next to the correction, and carries a one-line explanation. What it deliberately does not do is rewrite your style: your vocabulary, sentence order and voice stay yours.
Will the grammar check change my writing style or meaning?
No, and that is a design decision rather than a limitation. The checker is instructed to make the smallest correct fix and never to reorder ideas, swap your vocabulary or add content. Academic writing is judged on precision, so an error checker that quietly rewrites your argument is more dangerous than the errors it fixes. If you want your text actively rewritten for flow, that is a different job, and our editing suite handles it with tracked changes you approve line by line.
Does it handle British and American English?
Yes. The checker detects which convention your text uses and keeps it: American spelling stays American, British stays British, and only genuine inconsistencies against your own majority convention get flagged. If you need to switch a whole text from one to the other, use the dedicated US UK English converter on this site instead.
Why does every correction come with an explanation?
Because a fix you understand is a fix you stop needing. Most grammar tools apply changes silently, which corrects the document but not the writer. Listing each error with the rule behind it turns every check into a micro-lesson, and it also lets you catch the rare case where an automated suggestion is wrong for your field's phrasing, which no tool is entirely immune to.

Grammar checked. Now proofread the whole document.

The ProofreaderPro editor brings the same show-every-change discipline to complete essays, theses and manuscripts: academic proofreading with tracked changes, citations left intact, and you approving every edit. Free to try.

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