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Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Five-time winner of Best Education Podcast in the Podcast Awards. Grammar Girl provides short, frien

Episodes

Total: 936

Fossils of language

Are you a comma-kaze? Do you use commas like confetti? Don't use a comma everywhere you would pause

355 GG Subject Object

2013/2/8

Why "I love you" is the easiest way ever to remember the difference between subject and object.

and "renanoing"?

Make your messages more vivid, more memorable, and trigger emotional responses using anaphora, antit

What pronoun should you use when referring to a company?

Is Your Dog an "It" or a "She"?

The good, the bad, and the odd.

How an editor who hated the word "radical," became a radical.

347 GG How to Use a Hyphen

2012/12/14

Learn how to use properly use hyphens with compound adjectives.

346 GG Tuxedo Verbs

2012/12/7

Use rich verbs, but don't put them in tuxedos.

Tricks to make make your writing more accessible to people with dyslexia and visual impairments.

The updated Ngram Viewer gives new insight into word usage.

151 GG Just Say No to Drugs

2012/10/12

"Dragged" versus "drug." The Grammar Girl print book is now available on Amazon.com! http://tinyurl.

Are "is is" and "had had" acceptable?

The girl who sat next to me is or was? named Stephanie.

333 GG When Is W a Vowel

2012/8/24

A E I O U and sometimes Y, but also W?

Debunking a believable grammar hoax.

Some verbs are becoming strangely irregular.

330 GG The Rules of Story

2012/7/27

Why the Rules of Story Are Even More Immutable than the Rules of Grammar.