Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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May 7, 2015 • 12min

465 GG Two Spaces After a Period?

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Apr 30, 2015 • 14min

464 GG Weird Conditionals

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Apr 23, 2015 • 11min

463 GG Most or Almost. Parallel Structure. Follow Suit

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Apr 16, 2015 • 11min

462 GG Everyday. Ain't. Eponyms

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Apr 9, 2015 • 10min

461 GG Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

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Apr 2, 2015 • 6min

105 Yoda Grammar (Reissue)

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Mar 26, 2015 • 9min

460 GG Global English: Prepone, Do the Needful, and More

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Mar 19, 2015 • 11min

459 GG Subject-Verb Agreement

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Mar 13, 2015 • 14min

458 GG Can You Process These Tricky, but Grammatical, Sentences?

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Feb 26, 2015 • 15min

456 GG Is Starting a Sentence With So Condescending?

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