Grammar Girl

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Grammar

General Grammar Tips

What Does “Proper English” Mean?
April 12, 2012 | Episode #317 | General Grammar
Possessives
March 29, 2012 | Episode #315 | General Grammar
Getting Your Tricky Conditionals Right
March 8, 2012 | Episode #313 | General Grammar
Omitting “That”
January 19, 2012 | Episode #307 | General Grammar | Word Choice
“The Night Circus”: First, Second, and Third Person
January 12, 2012 | Episode #306 | General Grammar | Style
Should You Point Out Errors?
December 29, 2011 | Episode #304 | General Grammar
Passive Voice
December 8, 2011 | Episode #302 | General Grammar
Christmas Carol Grammar
November 24, 2011 | Episode #300 | General Grammar
10 Tips to Banish Typos
November 17, 2011 | Episode #299 | General Grammar | Word Choice
How to Search a Corpus
October 27, 2011 | Episode #297 | General Grammar
When to Capitalize Seasons
September 29, 2011 | Episode #293 | General Grammar
Needs Washed
September 8, 2011 | Episode #290 | General Grammar
Compound Subjects
August 4, 2011 | Episode #287 | General Grammar | Punctuation
Capitalizing Titles
June 9, 2011 | Episode #279 | General Grammar
Oddness When You Start a Sentence with "There Is"
June 2, 2011 | Episode #278 | General Grammar
Camel Case
May 12, 2011 | Episode #275 | General Grammar
Double Subjects
May 4, 2011 | Episode #274 | General Grammar
Ending a Sentence With a Preposition
March 31, 2011 | Episode #269 | General Grammar
Mixing Verb Tenses
March 24, 2011 | Episode #268 | General Grammar
When Should You Capitalize Cocktail and Food Names?
March 11, 2011 | Episode #266 | General Grammar
A Funny Story About Epic Poetry
March 3, 2011 | Episode #265 | General Grammar
Punctuating Questions
February 24, 2011 | Episode #264 | General Grammar | Punctuation
How to Write Grammatically Correct Photo Captions
February 17, 2011 | Episode #263 | General Grammar
Contractions
January 27, 2011 | Episode #260 | General Grammar
First, Second, and Third Person
January 20, 2011 | Episode #259 | General Grammar | Word Choice
How to Make Family Names Plural
December 23, 2010 | Episode #255 | General Grammar | Punctuation | General
"Desert" Versus "Dessert"
December 10, 2010 | Episode #253 | General Grammar | Word Choice
What Is Plagiarism?
December 2, 2010 | Episode #252 | General Grammar
What Is a Gerund?
November 22, 2010 | Episode #251 | General Grammar
Why Doesn’t “Veterans Day” Have an Apostrophe?
November 11, 2010 | Episode #249 | General Grammar | Punctuation