# Writing Style Analyzer > Highlight adverbs, passive voice, complex words, and hard sentences in your text. Paste any draft and see the issues in real time. Free, in your browser, no upload. URL: https://uttir.com/writing-style Categories: text-tools, developer-tools Privacy: Your text is analyzed in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to a server. ## About Paste any draft and see the same issues a professional editor would flag: adverbs, passive voice, complex words, and sentences that are too long. Each issue is highlighted in the text with a colored underline; a sidebar shows the totals. Use it on blog posts, marketing copy, essays, or emails before you hit send. The tool does not change your text — it shows you what to change, and you decide. ## How to use 1. **Paste your draft** — Plain text. The score updates as you type. 2. **Read the highlights** — Adverbs in blue, passive voice in amber, complex words in purple, hard sentences in red. 3. **Rewrite and re-check** — Cut the adverbs, switch to active voice, shorten the long sentences. ## Examples ### A draft blog post Paste a draft, see the adverbs, see the long sentences, see the passive voice. Rewrite the worst offenders and re-check. Input: ``` The implementation was quickly completed by the team, but unfortunately the documentation was not really updated. ``` Output: ``` Adverbs: "quickly", "unfortunately", "really" · Passive: "was completed", "was updated" · Complex: "implementation", "documentation" ``` ### A marketing email Marketing copy should be punchy. The analyzer flags long sentences and weak verbs so the draft reads tighter before send. Input: ``` In order to maximize the impact of your campaign, it is recommended that you carefully consider the timing, the audience, and the messaging. ``` Output: ``` Sentence flagged as hard (28 words, 1.8 syllables/word). "Recommended" + "is" passive. Rewrite: "To maximize impact, pick your timing, audience, and messaging carefully." ``` ## FAQ ### Is my text uploaded? No. The text is parsed and analyzed in your browser. Nothing leaves the page. For a draft you would not paste into a server — a private email, a confidential memo — this is the safe option. ### What does each color mean? Adverbs (words ending in -ly) are blue. Passive voice is amber. Complex words (3+ syllables) are purple. Hard sentences (over 22 words or 1.7+ syllables per word) are red. Very hard sentences (over 30 words or 2.0+ syllables per word) are darker red. Plain text is unmarked. ### Are all adverbs bad? No. Some adverbs are necessary ("only", "almost", "just") and some are stylistic choices. The tool flags every adverb so you can see them — then you decide which to keep and which to cut. Hemingway's rule of thumb: if you can cut the adverb and the sentence still reads correctly, cut it. ### Is the passive voice detector accurate? It catches the common patterns (a form of "to be" followed by a past participle, optionally with an intervening adverb). It may miss unusual constructions and may flag a few false positives. For a deeper grammatical analysis, use a dedicated tool — this is the fast, privacy-first version. ### Why is this different from the Reading Level tool? Reading Level reports the education grade required to read the text (Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog, etc.). This tool flags the specific words and sentences you can rewrite to make the text more readable. Use Reading Level to measure; use this to edit. ## Related tools - [Reading Level Calculator](https://uttir.com/reading-level) — Check how hard your text is to read. Six readability formulas (Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade, Gunning Fog, SMOG, Coleman-Liau, Automated Readability Index) in one tool, all in your browser, no upload. - [Word Counter](https://uttir.com/word-counter) — Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in your text instantly. - [Character Counter](https://uttir.com/character-counter) — Count characters, words, lines, and UTF-8 bytes as you type. - [Reading Time Calculator](https://uttir.com/reading-time) — Estimate how long it takes to read or speak a piece of text. Adjustable words-per-minute for fiction, non-fiction, or speech. - [Sentence & Paragraph Counter](https://uttir.com/sentence-counter) — Count sentences, paragraphs, words, characters, and reading time all at once. Find your longest word and average sentence length. - [Paragraph Counter](https://uttir.com/paragraph-counter) — Count paragraphs, words per paragraph, and find the longest/shortest paragraph in your text. Free, runs in your browser. - [Sentence Length Checker](https://uttir.com/sentence-length-checker) — Check the length of every sentence in your text. Find sentences that are too long and see the average, median, and length distribution. --- For the full HTML page with the live tool, visit https://uttir.com/writing-style. This file is the markdown rendering at https://uttir.com/writing-style.md. See https://uttir.com/llms.txt for a site-wide summary.