Grammar Girl

Quick And Dirty Tips For Better Writing

Grammar

Style Tips

Sentence Fragments
April 5, 2012 | Episode #316 | Word Choice | Style
“The Night Circus”: First, Second, and Third Person
January 12, 2012 | Episode #306 | General Grammar | 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
Top Ten Grammar Myths
March 4, 2010 | Episode #211 | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style | Abbreviations
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
Everybody: Singular or Plural
January 27, 2012 | Episode #111 | General Grammar | Word Choice | 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
Citing Podcasts and Websites
April 11, 2008 | Episode #102 | Style | General
How to Write Percents
April 4, 2008 | Episode #101 | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style
How to Write Numbers
March 28, 2008 | Episode #100 | Word Choice | Style
Present Tense Books
March 14, 2008 | Episode #99 | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style
Writing Dates
December 28, 2007 | Episode #89 | Punctuation | Style
Used to Versus Use to, and Other Listener Questions
December 7, 2007 | Episode #87 | General Grammar | Punctuation | Word Choice | Style
Metaphors and Similes
September 1, 2011 | Episode #85 | General Grammar | Style
Interviewing Tips
November 9, 2007 | Episode #83 | Style | The Business of Writing | General | News
A Few Short Questions
October 26, 2007 | Episode #81 | General Grammar | Punctuation | Word Choice | Style
Misusing “So” and “Very”
October 19, 2007 | Episode #80 | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style
"It Is I" Versus "It Is Me"
October 12, 2007 | Episode #79 | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style
Formatting Hyperlinks
October 5, 2007 | Episode #78 | Punctuation | Style
Starting a Sentence With "Hopefully"
September 21, 2007 | Episode #76 | General Grammar | Word Choice | Style | General
Simplify Your Writing
August 30, 2007 | Episode #73 | Style
Formatting Vertical Lists
November 10, 2011 | Episode #57 | Punctuation | Style