
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Five-time winner of Best Education Podcast in the Podcast Awards. Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing and feed your love of the English language. Whether English is your first language or your second language, these grammar, punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer. Grammar Girl is a Quick and Dirty Tips podcast.
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Mar 17, 2016 • 19min
508 GG. Haiku Winners. Great Story Ideas
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14 Tips for Coming Up with Freelance Story Ideas You Can Sell: http://j.mp/1Uk7746
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Mar 10, 2016 • 10min
507 Patty or Paddy? Needs Washed
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Mar 4, 2016 • 9min
506 GG Subordinate Clause Examples
“Subordinate clause” is the name you’re more likely to have learned in school, but the other name, “dependent clause,” may help you better understand what they do because adding that subordinating conjunction to the head of the clause makes it dependent on a main clause.
Today, I have an explanation, plus examples with zombies!
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Feb 25, 2016 • 10min
505 GG Maudlin. Vocabulary Words
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Feb 18, 2016 • 9min
504 GG Shined or Shone? Idioms About Tea
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Feb 11, 2016 • 9min
503 GG What Is a Canard?
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What's the Origin of 'Straw Man'?
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Feb 4, 2016 • 17min
502 GG. Straw Man. Wicked.
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Jan 28, 2016 • 8min
501 GG Word Families. Caucus
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Jan 21, 2016 • 14min
500 GG Redundancy. Letters of Recommendation.
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Jan 14, 2016 • 11min
499 GG Current or Currant? Singular They
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