Grammar Girl

Quick And Dirty Tips For Better Writing

Grammar

Style Tips

Sentence Fragments
April 5, 2012 | Episode #316 | Word Choice | Style
Everybody: Singular or Plural
January 27, 2012 | Episode #111 | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style
“The Night Circus”: First, Second, and Third Person
January 12, 2012 | Episode #306 | General Grammar | Style
When Do You Capitalize Academic Degrees?
January 12, 2012 | | Style
Are Your Holiday Cards Grammatically Correct?
December 13, 2011 | | General Grammar | Punctuation | Style
Formatting Vertical Lists
November 10, 2011 | Episode #57 | Punctuation | Style
Generic Singular Pronouns
October 20, 2011 | Episode #29 | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style
Metaphors and Similes
September 1, 2011 | Episode #85 | General Grammar | Style
Are You Using Hyphens Correctly?
March 10, 2011 | | General Grammar | Punctuation | Style
Can You Start a Sentence with "However"?
March 10, 2011 | | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style
"A Historic " Versus "An Historic"
February 24, 2011 | | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style
Why Photo Captions May Deserve a Grammatical Pass
February 24, 2011 | | General Grammar | Punctuation | Style
CamelCase
January 30, 2011 | | Style
Ampersand
January 29, 2011 | | Punctuation | Style
Why Can't I Determine How My Name Is Spelled?
January 28, 2011 | | General Grammar | Punctuation | Style
Do You Need a Comma Before "Jr."?
January 20, 2011 | | General Grammar | Punctuation | Style
Show, Don’t Tell
October 28, 2010 | Episode #246 | Word Choice | Style
Split Infinitives
August 20, 2010 | Episode #236 | General Grammar | Style | General
Active Voice Versus Passive Voice
July 22, 2010 | Episode #232 | Word Choice | Style
Are Region Names Capitalized?
March 7, 2010 | | Style
Top Ten Grammar Myths
March 4, 2010 | Episode #211 | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style | Abbreviations
Strunk and Twite
December 10, 2009 | | Style | General
Using “For” to Mean “Because”
May 9, 2009 | Episode #169 | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style
Dashes Versus Colons
April 23, 2009 | Episode #167 | Punctuation | Style
How to Format URLs in Text
September 5, 2008 | Episode #132 | Style
Writing Accents and Dialects
July 18, 2008 | Episode #118 | Style
Whose for Inanimate Objects
May 23, 2008 | Episode #108 | Word Choice | Style
More Than Versus Over
May 9, 2008 | Episode #106 | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style
Yoda Grammar
May 1, 2008 | Episode #105 | Style | Humor
Sentence Length
April 25, 2008 | Episode #104 | General Grammar | Punctuation | Style