There's money to be made from other people's mistakes: $110m (£85m) of it, to be precise. 

 

从别人犯下的错误中也可以赚到钱。准确地说，是可以赚到大钱——1.1亿美元（约合7.59亿元人民币）。

 

That's the amount raised in a funding round by Grammarly, a firm that boasts of having what it calls "the world's most accurate online grammar checker". 

 

It has persuaded venture capital firms including General Catalyst¹, IVP and Spark Capital to support its platform. 

 

The eight-year-old firm, based in San Francisco, offers "mistake-free writing every time" to 6.9 million users. 

 

The start-up was founded in 2009 by Alex Shevchenko and Max Lytvyn. 

 

Its software uses spell-checking, proof-reading and plagiarism² detection tools, scanning text for the correct use of more than 250 advanced grammar rules.

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