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As one pass among several. It reliably catches agreement, spelling and some punctuation. It misses dangling modifiers, ambiguous pronouns, tense drift and anything requiring knowledge of what you meant, and it occasionally suggests changes that are wrong in academic context.

This comes up on How to Proofread Your Own Work, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.

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