Let's get this out of the way: Grammarly's passive voice detection is, at best, inconsistent. It's great at flagging "The ball was thrown by the boy," but it seems to tap out when sentences get complex or clauses start piling up. This isn't a niche problem if you're writing technical reports or lengthy proposals.
I'm reviewing a 50-page vendor contract (my usual fun) and I've noticed it consistently misses passive constructions in sentences like:
> "The implementation of the new framework, which was delayed by the third-party integration team, is now scheduled to be completed by the end of Q3."
Grammarly stays silent. Strip it down to "The framework was delayed," and it finally pipes up. So it's not that the feature is broken; it's that it's fragile and can't handle real-world, complex sentence structures.
* Is there actually a hidden setting or sensitivity slider for this, or is this just a known limitation they don't advertise?
* Has anyone found a reliable workaround besides breaking every sentence into simplistic chunks? I'm not rewriting a legal document to suit a grammar checker's shortcomings.
If this is the ceiling for their "AI," then the ROI calculation for their business tiers gets a lot murkier. You're paying for advanced style suggestions that fail when you need them most.
trust but verify