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Grammar Girl
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.
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Episodes
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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…
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251 - What Is a Gerund?
What Is a Gerund? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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. Hosted…
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390 - Passive Voice
Avoid one of the biggest passive voice mistakes! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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…
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388 GG Style Sheets
Don't make the mistake of treating your style sheet like a style guide. The new grammar game, Grammar Pop, is now available for the iPhone. Look for it in the…
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387 GG "Because" as a Preposition
What's up with sentences such as I didn't do my homework because Skyrim? Try Grammar Girl's new iPad and iPhone game: Grammar Pop. Hosted on Acast. See…
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386 - Negation in Night Vale
Welcome to Night Vale: Where even “not” isn’t what it seems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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117 - Biweekly Versus Semiweekly
Why "biweekly" can have multiple legitimate meanings. Check out the new word game Grammar Pop in the App Store…
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385 - Irony
More than five different types of irony? No wonder it's confusing! Guest writer Keith Houston, author of "Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation…
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384 - Homophones
Which English homophones came from polysemy and which came from spelling variation? Try our new iPad game, Grammar Pop. If you like the Grammar Girl podcast…
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383 GG Could Care Less
An excerpt from Bill Walsh's book "Yes, I Could Care Less." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Grammar Girl50 GG Like Versus As
Find out which of these words is a preposition and which is a conjunction. Try Grammar Girl's new iPad game called Grammar Pop. You match words with their part…
Grammar Girl381 GG Prepositions
The fascinating history of English prepositions (yes, really). If you are trying to learn about prepositions, try Grammar Girl's new iPad game called Grammar…
Grammar Girl380 GG Participles and Gerunds
Prove you know your parts of speech with the new iPad game Grammar Pop. You don't have to know the difference between participles and gerunds to play, but if…
Grammar Girl379 GG Apostrophes in Science Fiction and Fantasy Names
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Grammar Girl378 GG Apostrophes and Plurals
Learn how to use apostrophes by pondering a Victoria's Secret ad. Buy Grammar Girl's books: http://j.mp/allGGbooks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for…
Grammar Girl377 GG Royal "We"
In honor of the new royal baby, more formally known as Prince George Alexander Louis, we're pondering a pompous pronoun choice known as the "royal we." Buy…
Grammar Girl376 GG Why Do We Have Both A and An?
How English evolved to give us two indefinite articles (a and an), and the odd mix of possessive pronouns that don't quite match. Buy Grammar Girl's books…
Grammar Girl375 GG What Is It Called When You Mishear Song Lyrics?
Spoonerisms, Mondegreens, Malapropisms, and Eggcorns. Like the podcast? See Grammar Girl's books: http://j.mp/allGGbooks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy…
Grammar Girl374 GG Rebracketing
How to Make Weird Product Names Plural Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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372 GG Retronyms
Retronyms: Scourge of the Language or Helpful Tool? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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371 GG Commma Splice
How to Avoid a Common Comma Error: The Comma Splice Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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370 GG Why Isn't "Gruntled" A Word?
Why Aren't We Gruntled When We're Happy? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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369 GG Why Does "I" Take Plural Verbs?
"I" is singular, so why do we say "I go" instead of "I goes"? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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368 GG Hyphens
How to Use Hyphens. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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367 GG The Old Editor Says
John E. McIntyre, a veteran editor at The Baltimore Sun, shares pithy editing maxims from his new book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more…
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366 GG How Texting Is Changing English
How Texting Is Changing English Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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285 GG "Moot" Versus "Mute"
Moot isn't moot, but it can mean something different in Britain and the U.S. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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365 GG The Language of Crime
The Language of Crime Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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364 GG Why Would Anyone Use "The Chicago Manual of Style"?
Style guides. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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363 GG Writing Flashbacks
How to manage verb tense when writing flashbacks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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362 GG Why Are Some Portmanteaus So Awful?
My failed entries for the Clorox Ick-tionary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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361 GG Is That a Wool Sweater or a Woolen Sweater?
What to do when you can use an attributive noun or an adjective. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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051 GG I'm Good
Is it OK to answer "How are you?" with "I'm good"? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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359 GG Do You Tell People to Pound Sand or Pound Salt?
Deciphering crazy English idioms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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358 GG "Only": The Most Insidious Misplaced Modifier
How putting the word "only" in the wrong place can confuse your readers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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357 GG Why the Plural of "Die" Is "Dice," not "Douse."
Fossils of language Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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. Hosted on Acast. See…
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355 GG Subject Object
Why "I love you" is the easiest way ever to remember the difference between subject and object. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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353 GG Can Apple Get Away with "Funness"?
and "renanoing"? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy…
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351 GG Pronouns: Is a Company a "Who" or a "That"?
What pronoun should you use when referring to a company? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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350 GG "Who" Versus "That"
Is Your Dog an "It" or a "She"? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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349 GG A Word Lover's Highlights of 2012
The good, the bad, and the odd. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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348 GG How Webster's Screwed Up
How an editor who hated the word "radical," became a radical. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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347 GG How to Use a Hyphen
Learn how to use properly use hyphens with compound adjectives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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346 GG Tuxedo Verbs
Use rich verbs, but don't put them in tuxedos. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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342 GG Writing for Dyslexic Readers
Tricks to make make your writing more accessible to people with dyslexia and visual impairments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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341 GG Google Ngram and "Impact" as a Verb
The updated Ngram Viewer gives new insight into word usage. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more…
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142 GG When Are Double Words OK?
Are "is is" and "had had" acceptable? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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334 GG Using Present Tense in a Story About the Past
The girl who sat next to me is or was? named Stephanie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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333 GG When Is W a Vowel
A E I O U and sometimes Y, but also W? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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332 GG How Do You Tell If Something Is True?
Debunking a believable grammar hoax. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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331 GG "Pet" or "Petted"? Troublesome Past Tenses
Some verbs are becoming strangely irregular. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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330 GG The Rules of Story
Why the Rules of Story Are Even More Immutable than the Rules of Grammar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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329 GG "Versus"
Get ready to write about the Olympics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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328 GG "Decimate" and "All Right"
Two troublesome words from Grammar Girl's new book. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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327 GG "Dilemma" and "Gone Missing"
From 101 TROUBLESOME WORDS. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.