Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.

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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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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098 Who Versus Whom--Advanced

07 Mar 2008

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096 May Versus Might

21 Feb 2008

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095 Zeroscape Versus Xeriscape

15 Feb 2008

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093 Hyphens

31 Jan 2008

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091 Yo as a Pronoun

10 Jan 2008

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090 Went Missing

04 Jan 2008

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087 Used to Versus Use to, and Other Listener Questions

07 Dec 2007

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084 People Versus Entities

16 Nov 2007

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082 Daylight-Saving Time

09 Nov 2007

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083 Interviewing Tips

09 Nov 2007

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078 Formatting Hyperlinks

05 Oct 2007

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077 Verbification of a Noun

28 Sep 2007

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076 Starting a Sentence With "Hopefully"

21 Sep 2007

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073 Simplify Your Writing

30 Aug 2007

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