Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
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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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Collective Nouns Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for adver...
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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072 The The -- The Double The
23 Aug 2007
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070 The Asterisk (Trust Me About Grammar, Not About Baseball)
10 Aug 2007
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067 Your Versus You're
20 Jul 2007
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068 Unlawful Versus Illegal
20 Jul 2007
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065 Regionalisms
29 Jun 2007
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064 Between You and Me
26 Jun 2007
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056 Generating Story Ideas and Overcoming Writer's Block
22 May 2007
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055 Misplaced Modifiers
18 May 2007
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048 April Fools' Day Episode
01 Apr 2007
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266 When Should You Capitalize Cocktail and Food Names?
11 Mar 2007
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042 Semicolons
21 Feb 2007
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036 Grammar Manners
12 Jan 2007
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031 The Lord Is Come?
15 Dec 2006
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024 Who Versus That
04 Nov 2006
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021 Proofreading Tips
20 Oct 2006
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165 Abbreviations, Acronyms, And Initialisms
10 Oct 2006
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Excessive Redundant Redundancies
08 Oct 2006
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015 Title Capitalization Rules
24 Sep 2006
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11 Grammar Style Issues
07 Sep 2006
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