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
Jan 10, 2014 • 4min
396 GG Tenterhooks or Tenderhooks?
What could this week’s topic be?
Jan 2, 2014 • 6min
192 Do I Hate Your Singing or You Singing?
Do I Hate Your Singing or You Singing?
Dec 24, 2013 • 8min
395 GG How to Use Quotation Marks
How to mix quotation marks with other punctuation.
Dec 17, 2013 • 8min
394GG Hashtag Rap
Did Kanye West Coin the Term "Hashtag Rap"?
Dec 13, 2013 • 7min
393 GG Nonsense Syllables
Why we sing "fra la la" instead of "fa spla spla"
Dec 6, 2013 • 6min
392 GG Orangehead
Why do we call people redheads instead of orangeheads? Guest writer Gretchen McCulloch has the amazing answer. Grammar Pop Winterfest is a new wintery edition of the original Grammar Pop iOS game. It has new winter art and all new sentences, and it's on sale for only 99 cents until December 15. Get it today!
Nov 28, 2013 • 7min
251 - What Is a Gerund?
What Is a Gerund?
Nov 22, 2013 • 6min
391 GG Scrabble Words
A fun romp through some quirky words you may see when you're playing Scrabble.
Remember to check out my new game, Grammar Pop, for your iPhone or iPad.
Nov 15, 2013 • 5min
390 - Passive Voice
Avoid one of the biggest passive voice mistakes!
Nov 7, 2013 • 7min
389 GG English Plurals: Wugs and Blicks
Your subconscious controls how you speak. We show why you already know how to make imaginary words such as "wugs" and "blicks" plural.
Try the new iPad and iPhone grammar game, Grammar Pop. It's in the App Store.
