Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
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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.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Dec 28, 2012 • 8min
349 GG A Word Lover's Highlights of 2012
The good, the bad, and the odd.
Dec 21, 2012 • 7min
348 GG How Webster's Screwed Up
How an editor who hated the word "radical," became a radical.
Dec 14, 2012 • 10min
347 GG How to Use a Hyphen
Learn how to use properly use hyphens with compound adjectives.
Dec 7, 2012 • 8min
346 GG Tuxedo Verbs
Use rich verbs, but don't put them in tuxedos.
Nov 9, 2012 • 7min
342 GG Writing for Dyslexic Readers
Tricks to make make your writing more accessible to people with dyslexia and visual impairments.
Nov 2, 2012 • 6min
341 GG Google Ngram and "Impact" as a Verb
The updated Ngram Viewer gives new insight into word usage.
Oct 12, 2012 • 3min
151 GG Just Say No to Drugs
"Dragged" versus "drug." The Grammar Girl print book is now available on Amazon.com! http://tinyurl.com/2pkej7
Sep 28, 2012 • 6min
142 GG When Are Double Words OK?
Are "is is" and "had had" acceptable?
Aug 31, 2012 • 7min
334 GG Using Present Tense in a Story About the Past
The girl who sat next to me is or was? named Stephanie.
Aug 24, 2012 • 8min
333 GG When Is W a Vowel
A E I O U and sometimes Y, but also W?
