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.
Latest episodes
Aug 20, 2015 • 20min
478 GG Why English Has Silent Letters
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Fictitious Versus Fictional: http://bit.ly/1Nmnr0A
Silent Letters: http://bit.ly/1hqOjQl
Adult, Adolescent, Adultery: http://bit.ly/1KwPAvM
Sponsor: http://edx.org/gg
Aug 13, 2015 • 16min
477 GG Scrabble Extravaganza
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Scrabble Expert Interviews: http://bit.ly/1MqVrZF
Aug 6, 2015 • 15min
476 GG Zero Percent, Prefixes and Suffixes, Malapropisms
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Zero Percent
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Prefixes and Suffixes
http://bit.ly/1ejOkD3
Malapropisms:
http://bit.ly/1eT5tDU
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Jul 31, 2015 • 6min
281 How Do Words Get in the Dictionary?
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How Do Words Get in the Dictionary?
http://j.mp/1IHGSKr
Jul 23, 2015 • 13min
475 GG How a Comma Can Get You out of a Parking Ticket
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Numbers in Parentheses: http://bit.ly/1GGZDfs
Comma Law: http://bit.ly/1CW2mqj
Minions: http://bit.ly/1TSiDB4
QDT Block Party: http://apple.co/1gA1pKr
Sponsor: http://edx.org/gg
Jul 16, 2015 • 14min
474 GG Flesh Out. Last Names. Hat Trick.
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Flesh Out or Flush Out? http://j.mp/1TDrE0x
Last Names: http://j.mp/1V57cHH
Hat Trick: http://j.mp/1Mv2j4O
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Jul 9, 2015 • 13min
473 GG How Understanding Toy Story Can Help You Get into College
Follow along on the website: Ban Together or Band Together? http://j.mp/1JTe7xl How Understanding 'Toy Story' Can Help Get You into College. http://j.mp/1S7L4Ik Left Holding the Bag. http://j.mp/1gmXhNG Sponsor: http://AudiblePodcast.com/GG
Jun 23, 2015 • 15min
472 GG Citizen or Resident? Let's and Let Us. Newfangled.
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Citizen or Resident? http://j.mp/1BBaE67
Let's and Let Us: http://j.mp/1SL2NaP
Newfangled: http://j.mp/1NbEVcJ
Survey: http://podsurvey.com/grammar
Sponsor: http://DiscountFilters.com/GG
Jun 18, 2015 • 12min
471 GG Size versus Sized. When Is It OK to Be Redundant? Mind Your P’s and Q’s.
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'King-size' or 'King-sized'?
http://bit.ly/1AN2M1x
When Is It OK to Be Redundant?
http://bit.ly/1eRM9rl
What Does "Mind Your P's and Q's Mean"?
http://bit.ly/1AN1qUh
Grammar Pop: j.mp/1H5YiSj]
Jun 12, 2015 • 12min
470 GG Prepositions in Shakespeare
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How Many Spaces After a Colon?
http://bit.ly/1EFJVQF
Prepositions in Shakespeare
http://bit.ly/1Rwb7KU
A Treat
http://bit.ly/1AAwmqw
