Is Your Grammar Letting You Down?
Inaccurate English can hold you back. Poor grammar and punctuation will make a bad impression on employers and customers.

Computers can check only obvious grammar errors and are insensitive to style and tone, which is why large companies employ marketing and communications staff.

Our fast, accurate grammar-check will ensure that your documents are error-free and professional. We will correct inaccuracies, answer your grammar questions and redraft your documents. It means an end to worries and uncertainties.


Why not simply rely on the grammar checker built into some word-processing software?
Grammar-checking software can highlight sentences with gross errors, such as a missing verb or obviously faulty punctuation. However, there is no substitute for a discriminating proofreader who not only understands the principles of grammar but is also sensitive to the subtleties of style.

Style is not just about being correct or incorrect; it is to do with judgement and being sensitive to the tone appropriate to your target readership.

Check Your Grammar provides a one-to-one personal service, which ensures that the meaning on the paper matches what you really want to convey.

Grammar-checkers cannot identify:
• inappropriate vocabulary
• wordiness
• register and degree of formality
• mixed constructions
• inappropriate parallelism
• difficulties with sentence variety
• conventions involving italics and underlining
• shifts in point of view
• shifts in mood and voice
• inference and subtext
• clichés

Grammar-checkers often miss these grammar points:
• inconsistent use of tenses
• dangling participles and modifiers
• pronoun-antecedent agreement
• problems with gerunds and infinitives
• difficulties with co-ordination and subordination
• confusion between adverbs and adjectives
• difficulties with conditional sentences
• difficulties with the subjunctive mood
• details of punctuation e.g. the use of commas, semi-colons, quotation marks and apostrophes


I am Neil McCutcheon, founder of Check Your Grammar, and a graduate of the University of St Andrews, Scotland. I have worked for many years, both in the UK and overseas, as a school teacher, trainer and adult education lecturer. In 2001, I completed the Trinity Licentiate Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.

I have always been interested in the development of English as a global language. I believe that, in the current climate of rich linguistic diversity, the conventions of standard written English continue to be important to many employers, customers and academics.

I established Check Your Grammar to advise and support speakers of English, whatever their linguistic or educational background, so that they can make the most of the opportunities that are open to careful, confident users.

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