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
Mar 26, 2015 • 9min
460 GG Global English: Prepone, Do the Needful, and More
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Parentheses and Subject-Verb Agreement
http://j.mp/1FWMySM
Global English
http://j.mp/19U43aG
Stand in Line or Stand on Line?
http://j.mp/1bxpONX
Try our iOS game, Grammar Pop
http://j.mp/1H5YiSj
Mar 19, 2015 • 11min
459 GG Subject-Verb Agreement
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'Wrong' Versus 'Wrongly'
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Subject-Verb Agreement
http://j.mp/1xClTnM
Is 'Heighth' a Word?
http://j.mp/1GvnEIq
Vote in the Podcast Awards
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Mar 13, 2015 • 14min
458 GG Can You Process These Tricky, but Grammatical, Sentences?
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Does E-Book Need a Hyphen?
http://j.mp/1wCjVs6
Can You Process These Tricky, but Grammatical, Sentences?
http://j.mp/1HPgFLq
The Meaning of Minions
http://j.mp/1Gy6wBx
Please Vote in the Podcast Awards
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Feb 26, 2015 • 15min
456 GG Is Starting a Sentence With So Condescending?
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When "First" Is Redundant
http://j.mp/1wtjhgT
Is Starting a Sentence With So Condescending?
http://j.mp/1wthqsn
Synecdoche
http://j.mp/1FAUDua
Watch Grammar Girl's TEDx Talk
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Feb 20, 2015 • 33sec
Announcement
There was a death in my family, so I don't have a show this week. I'll be back next week. If you're looking for something new to listen to while I'm away, try one of the other Quick and Dirty Tips podcasts. Some of them are listed here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/grammar-girl-quick-dirty-tips/id173429229?mt=2
Feb 12, 2015 • 11min
455 GG Why Do We Drive on Parkways and Park on Driveways?
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Dreamed or Dreamt?
http://j.mp/1E2oQBF
Parkway, Driveway, and Dooryard
http://j.mp/1zNdcei
Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo
http://j.mp/1EbYdtP
Watch my TEDx talk: Who Votes for New Words?
http://j.mp/ggTEDx
Feb 5, 2015 • 12min
454 GG Splitting Infinitives
Capitalizing Theories. Splitting Infinitives. Samuel Johnson.
Jan 29, 2015 • 13min
453 GG Less Versus Fewer
Follow along on the website: Capitalizing Time Periods http://j.mp/1z4W6bX Less Versus Fewer http://j.mp/1yP50d4 Bee's Knees http://j.mp/1DiC0dw ---- Try my iOS game, Grammar Pop http://j.mp/1H5YiSj
Jan 22, 2015 • 18min
452 GG Why People Misuse Prepositions
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Compliment Versus Complement
http://j.mp/184vjlA
Saving Our Prepositions
http://j.mp/1yOHBdJ
How 8 Fonts Got Their Names
http://j.mp/1xZXLdg
Try my iOS game, Grammar Pop
http://j.mp/1H5YiSj
Jan 15, 2015 • 14min
451 GG Impossible Participals
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Commas Before "Jr."
http://j.mp/1BYaNOx
Impossible Participles
http://j.mp/1u2BXCZ
Onomatopoeia
http://j.mp/1AXQQZa
Try my iOS game, Grammar Pop
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