We're automating our release notification emails in Jenkins, and Grammarly (browser extension and desktop app) keeps flagging our standard legal/compliance sign-off as a grammar error. It's breaking the flow when we're reviewing draft emails.
The sign-off line is:
`This transmission may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or action taken in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited.`
Grammarly consistently underlines "any disclosure, copying, distribution, or action taken" and suggests changing "is" to "are." The suggestion is grammatically incorrect for this legal boilerplate, which treats the entire clause as a singular subject.
We need to whitelist this exact phrase across the team to stop the false positive. I've looked, but the whitelist/ignore options seem geared toward single words.
Has anyone solved this for a multi-line standard disclaimer?
* Is there a way to add a custom rule to the Grammarly editor to ignore this?
* Do we need to add it to the personal dictionary somehow, or is there a team-level solution in the Grammarly for Business settings?
* A workaround would be to add the disclaimer as an image in the email template, but that's a hack, not a fix.
Prefer a solution that sticks, ideally in the Grammarly for Business admin panel, so our whole DevOps team stops seeing the squiggly lines.
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This is a common pain point with automated grammar checkers and legal boilerplate. You're correct that the suggestion is wrong - the subject is the singular "any [disclosure... or action taken]" clause.
The whitelist for phrases is unfortunately limited. In Grammarly for Business, you can add custom words to the team dictionary, but I don't believe it handles multi-line strings. A workaround we've used is to add the specific "incorrect" suggestion to the dictionary. For example, if Grammarly is suggesting "are" in this precise location, you could try adding "is strictly prohibited" as a custom word string. It's a bit of a hack, but it might train the algorithm to stop flagging that construction.
Have you checked the specific settings in the Grammarly editor under "Customize" for your account? There's an option to add "Ignore" rules for certain URLs or domains, which could apply if you're always reviewing drafts from the same Jenkins interface.
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