Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.
Episodes
270 Commas With Participial Phrases
07 Apr 2011
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268 Mixing Verb Tenses
24 Mar 2011
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267 How to Speak English Like the Irish
17 Mar 2011
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263 How to Write Grammatically Correct Photo Captions
17 Feb 2011
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260 Contractions
27 Jan 2011
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259 First, Second, and Third Person
20 Jan 2011
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258 How to Write Dialogue
13 Jan 2011
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257 Should You Ever Put a Space Before a Period?
13 Jan 2011
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252 What Is Plagiarism?
02 Dec 2010
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250 "Foreword" Versus "Forward"
19 Nov 2010
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248 How to Write a Better Resume
04 Nov 2010
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246 Show, Don’t Tell
28 Oct 2010
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245 "Talk With" versus "Talk To"
22 Oct 2010
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243 "Think Different" or "Think Differently"
07 Oct 2010
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242 "Like" Versus "Such As"
30 Sep 2010
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240 Do All Adverbs End in "-Ly"?
16 Sep 2010
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239 Capitalizing Proper Nouns
09 Sep 2010
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238 Is It OK to Switch Verb Tenses?
02 Sep 2010
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235 Swearing
12 Aug 2010
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234 Does "Until" Include the Date?
05 Aug 2010
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232 Active Voice Versus Passive Voice
22 Jul 2010
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Active Voice Versus Passive Voice Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of person...
231 How to Write Clear Sentences
15 Jul 2010
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230 When to Use Female Nouns
08 Jul 2010
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229 Understanding Voice and Tone in Writing
01 Jul 2010
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228 Comma Splice
25 Jun 2010
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226 How to Use Transition Words
17 Jun 2010
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224 When to Use Articles Before Nouns
04 Jun 2010
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222 Dashes, Parentheses, and Commas
21 May 2010
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219 "Bad" Versus "Badly"
30 Apr 2010
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220 How to Eliminate Adverbs
29 Apr 2010
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217 What Is Poetic License?
15 Apr 2010
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215 Hey, That's Not Grammar Girl!
01 Apr 2010
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213 Stacked Modifiers
18 Mar 2010
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209 Does the Olympic Theme Song “I Believe” Have a Grammar Error?
19 Feb 2010
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206 Is "I'm Loving It" Proper Grammar?
29 Jan 2010
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205 Readers Share Their Funny Errors
21 Jan 2010
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203 How Do You Pronounce 2010?
18 Jan 2010
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204 Is "Got" Proper English?
14 Jan 2010
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201 Is “Ain't” a Word?
25 Dec 2009
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199 "Alternate" Versus "Alternative"
05 Dec 2009
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197 "Where" Versus "In Which"
19 Nov 2009
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196 Adverbs Ending in -ly
13 Nov 2009
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193 "Diffuse" Versus "Defuse"
16 Oct 2009
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191 How to Write a Complaint Letter
02 Oct 2009
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190 Ellipses Spurned
25 Sep 2009
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188 "Comprise" Versus "Compose"
18 Sep 2009
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187 Should Writers Keep a Journal?
11 Sep 2009
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186 Funny Misplaced Modifiers
04 Sep 2009
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185 When Should You Capitalize Titles?
28 Aug 2009
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183 Verbs Sandwiched Between Singular and Plural Nouns
14 Aug 2009
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184 When Should You Capitalize Words?
01 Aug 2009
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181 How Many Spaces After A Period?
30 Jul 2009
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176 What Is Subject-Complement Agreement?
26 Jul 2009
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180 How to Use Parallel Construction Correctly
24 Jul 2009
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119 "Shall" Versus "Will"
22 Jul 2009
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179 Can You Start a Sentence with “Which”?
17 Jul 2009
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178 Do Rhetorical Questions Need a Question Mark?
10 Jul 2009
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174 "Myself"
12 Jun 2009
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172 "All Right" Versus "Alright"
29 May 2009
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170 Swear Words in Text
15 May 2009
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169 Using “For” to Mean “Because”
09 May 2009
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168 Troublesome Contractions (e.g., I'd've)
01 May 2009
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167 Dashes Versus Colons
23 Apr 2009
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166 Strunk and White
17 Apr 2009
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182 Are You Annoyingly Redundant?
07 Apr 2009
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164 "One" Versus "You"
03 Apr 2009
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177 Why Are British English and American English Different?
03 Apr 2009
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162 How to Write a Great Blog Comment
20 Mar 2009
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161 "Use" Versus "Utilize"
13 Mar 2009
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158 "Flammable" Versus "Inflammable"
20 Feb 2009
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157 GG When to Use a Comma with “Too”
13 Feb 2009
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156 What is the plural of scissors
06 Feb 2009
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155 What to Call People With Disabilities.
30 Jan 2009
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150 How to Podcast a Book
26 Dec 2008
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148 How to Write Your First Novel
12 Dec 2008
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012 Wordiness And Idioms
21 Nov 2008
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146 Mixed Metaphors
13 Nov 2008
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144 Concrete Versus Cement
07 Nov 2008
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141 Appositives
17 Oct 2008
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140 Modifying Phrases at the Beginning of Sentences
10 Oct 2008
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139 Is "Data" Singular or Plural?
03 Oct 2008
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136 Complex-Compound Sentences
19 Sep 2008
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131 Collective Nouns
02 Sep 2008
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129 Assure Versus Ensure Versus Insure
25 Aug 2008
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127 Begs the Question
19 Aug 2008
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126 - Through, Threw, and Thru
14 Aug 2008
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125 Comparatives Versus Superlatives
12 Aug 2008
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124 Better Versus Best
08 Aug 2008
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122 Is "Have Got" Acceptable English?
01 Aug 2008
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120 He Said, She Said
25 Jul 2008
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118 Writing Accents and Dialects
18 Jul 2008
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123 How to Avoid Clichés
15 Jul 2008
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116 "Than I" Versus "Than Me"
10 Jul 2008
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114 Phrasal Verbs
04 Jul 2008
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113 Writing with Slang
27 Jun 2008
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110 When to Leave Out "That"
06 Jun 2008
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108 Whose for Inanimate Objects
23 May 2008
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107 Graduated versus Graduated From
15 May 2008
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100 How to Write Numbers
28 Mar 2008
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007 Which Versus That
21 Mar 2008
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