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 8, 2013 • 5min
359 GG Do You Tell People to Pound Sand or Pound Salt?
Deciphering crazy English idioms.
Mar 1, 2013 • 7min
358 GG "Only": The Most Insidious Misplaced Modifier
How putting the word "only" in the wrong place can confuse your readers.
Feb 22, 2013 • 8min
357 GG Why the Plural of "Die" Is "Dice," not "Douse."
Fossils of language
Feb 15, 2013 • 7min
356 GG Where Do I Use Commas?
Are you a comma-kaze? Do you use commas like confetti? Don't use a comma everywhere you would pause when speaking. Check out the rules.
Feb 8, 2013 • 6min
355 GG Subject Object
Why "I love you" is the easiest way ever to remember the difference between subject and object.
Jan 25, 2013 • 8min
353 GG Can Apple Get Away with "Funness"?
and "renanoing"?
Jan 18, 2013 • 8min
352 GG How to Create and Use Figures of Speech Pt.1
Make your messages more vivid, more memorable, and trigger emotional responses using anaphora, antithesis, and chiasmus.
Jan 11, 2013 • 5min
351 GG Pronouns: Is a Company a "Who" or a "That"?
What pronoun should you use when referring to a company?
Jan 4, 2013 • 6min
350 GG "Who" Versus "That"
Is Your Dog an "It" or a "She"?
Dec 28, 2012 • 8min
349 GG A Word Lover's Highlights of 2012
The good, the bad, and the odd.
