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General Grammar Tips

"A Historic " Versus "An Historic"
February 24, 2011 | | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style
"Desert" Versus "Dessert"
December 10, 2010 | Episode #253 | General Grammar | Word Choice
"It Is I" Versus "It Is Me"
October 12, 2007 | Episode #79 | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style
"Like" Versus "Such As"
October 1, 2010 | Episode #242 | General Grammar
"One" Versus "You"
April 3, 2009 | Episode #164 | General Grammar | Word Choice
"Than I" Versus "Than Me"
July 11, 2008 | Episode #116 | General Grammar | Word Choice
"The Situation" Does Grammar
September 4, 2010 | | General Grammar
"Think Different" or "Think Differently"
October 7, 2010 | Episode #243 | General Grammar | Word Choice
“The Night Circus”: First, Second, and Third Person
January 12, 2012 | Episode #306 | General Grammar | Style
10 Tips to Banish Typos
November 17, 2011 | Episode #299 | General Grammar | Word Choice
Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Initialisms
April 10, 2009 | Episode #165 | General Grammar | General
Adverbs Ending in -ly
November 13, 2009 | Episode #196 | General Grammar
And/Or
May 13, 2010 | | General Grammar
Apostrophes
January 18, 2008 | Episode #92 | General Grammar | Punctuation
Appositives
October 17, 2008 | Episode #141 | General Grammar
Are You Using Hyphens Correctly?
March 10, 2011 | | General Grammar | Punctuation | Style
Are Your Holiday Cards Grammatically Correct?
December 13, 2011 | | General Grammar | Punctuation | Style
Between Me and You?
March 27, 2009 | Episode #163 | General Grammar
Between You and Me
June 26, 2007 | Episode #64 | General Grammar
Camel Case
May 12, 2011 | Episode #275 | General Grammar
Can Cigarettes Possess Something?
October 18, 2011 | | General Grammar | Punctuation
Can You Start a Sentence with "Because"?
November 9, 2011 | | General Grammar
Can You Start a Sentence with "However"?
March 10, 2011 | | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style
Capitalizing Proper Nouns
September 9, 2010 | Episode #239 | General Grammar
Capitalizing Titles
June 9, 2011 | Episode #279 | General Grammar
Christmas Carol Grammar
November 24, 2011 | Episode #300 | General Grammar
Collective Nouns
September 2, 2008 | Episode #131 | General Grammar
Complex-Compound Sentences
September 19, 2008 | Episode #136 | General Grammar
Compound Possession
September 14, 2007 | Episode #75 | General Grammar | Abbreviations
Compound Subjects
August 4, 2011 | Episode #287 | General Grammar | Punctuation