After the Deadline is an intelligent grammar, style, and spell checker. It works with most web sites and it uses artificial intelligence to check spelling, style, and grammar. Use it to check your tweets, find mistakes in your email, and socialize with confidence. Click the ABC icon in the lower-right corner of an editable area to proofread your writing.
Plugins are available for WordPress and TinyMCE with more on the way. Limited casual use is free with monthly subscriptions available depending on the volume of requests. It is available as both an online tool and plugins for various applications. The online version is available at its own dedicated address. You can also access it from the AtD site by clicking the “Demonstration” link at the top of the page.
To check writing mistakes in a piece of text, paste the text inside the writing field and click the “Check Writing” button below. After processing the text, AtD will underline parts that it thinks contain mistakes. Click the underlined text to see the suggested correction(s) and/or read the explanation.
What does After the Deadline do?
Checks Spelling
After the Deadline’s spell checker recommends the correct word 9/10 times. its spell checker looks at context and uses artificial intelligence to make recommendations.
Detects Misused Words
A common error is writing one word when you mean another. Most spell checkers assume any word in their dictionary is correct regardless of context. This means all misused word errors go unnoticed.
Its database has 1,500 commonly misused words. We check each use of these words for a better fitting word. If such a word is found, the misused word is marked as misspelled and we suggest what we think you meant.
No other web based writing improvement solution has this feature. Visit its blog to see how this feature compares to Microsoft Office and Firefox.
Checks Style
After the Deadline helps you write clearly and concisely. Its style checker has thousands of rules and uses context to choose the best suggestions. The rules come from a style known as Plain English.
Its style checker:
- Finds complex phrases and suggests simple ones
- Locates passive voice
- Roots out hidden verbs (also called abstract nouns, nominalizations)
- Searches for redundant phrases and suggests what to eliminate
- Finds cliches and bias-language
Checks Grammar
The grammar checker in After the Deadline protects you from common writing errors. Its grammar checker has a database of rules that look at entire phrases and parts-of-speech to find errors. After the Deadline uses statistics to automatically find exceptions to its grammar rules, making it one of the smartest grammar checkers around.
Its grammar checker finds:
- [advt]Confused words (a/an, it/it’s, there/their, to/too, you/you’re, etc.)
- Repeated Words
- Auxiliary Verb Agreement Errors
- Determiner Agreement Errors
- Wrong Verb in Infinitive Phrases
Explains Errors
After the Deadline will make you a better writer as you use it. The misused word detector, grammar checker, and style checker explain the mistakes and suggestions to you. Click an error and choose the “Explain …” option.
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