Grammar Girl

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Punctuation Tips

"Milk It for All It's Worth" or "Milk It for All Its Worth"?
March 9, 2010 | | Punctuation | Word Choice
Abbreviations, Acronyms, And Initialisms
October 10, 2006 | Episode #19 | Punctuation | Abbreviations | General
Apostrophe Catastrophe (Part One)
December 22, 2006 | Episode #32 | Punctuation
Apostrophes
January 18, 2008 | Episode #92 | General Grammar | Punctuation
The Asterisk (Trust Me About Grammar, Not About Baseball)
August 10, 2007 | Episode #70 | Punctuation
Can Cigarettes Possess Something?
January 24, 2010 | | General Grammar | Punctuation
Colons
November 24, 2006 | Episode #27 | Punctuation
Comma Splice
March 15, 2007 | Episode #45 | Punctuation
Dashes Versus Colons
April 23, 2009 | Episode #167 | Punctuation | Style
Daylight-Saving Time
March 11, 2010 | Episode #212 | Punctuation
Do Rhetorical Questions Need a Question Mark?
July 10, 2009 | Episode #178 | Punctuation
Does "E-book" Have a Hyphen?
February 7, 2010 | | Punctuation
Does "Thank-You" Have a Hyphen
January 11, 2010 | | Punctuation
Ellipses
June 1, 2007 | Episode #59 | Punctuation
Ellipses Spurned
September 25, 2009 | Episode #190 | Punctuation
A Few Short Questions
October 26, 2007 | Episode #81 | General Grammar | Punctuation | Word Choice | Style
Formatting Hyperlinks
October 5, 2007 | Episode #78 | Punctuation | Style
Formatting Vertical Lists
May 25, 2007 | Episode #57 | Punctuation | Style
Greeting Card Grammar
November 30, 2007 | Episode #86 | General Grammar | Punctuation | Word Choice
How Many Spaces After A Period?
July 31, 2009 | Episode #181 | Punctuation
How to Use Semicolons
September 22, 2009 | Episode #189 | Punctuation
Hyphens
February 1, 2008 | Episode #93 | General Grammar | Punctuation
Punctuating Questions
June 6, 2007 | Episode #60 | General Grammar | Punctuation
Run-On Sentences
April 3, 2007 | Episode #49 | Punctuation | Style
Sentence Length
April 25, 2008 | Episode #104 | General Grammar | Punctuation | Style
Serial Comma
July 13, 2007 | Episode #66 | Punctuation
Single Quotation Marks Versus Double Quotation Marks
October 27, 2006 | Episode #22 | Punctuation
Troublesome Contractions (e.g., I'd've)
May 1, 2009 | Episode #168 | Punctuation
Used to Versus Use to, and Other Listener Questions
December 7, 2007 | Episode #87 | General Grammar | Punctuation | Word Choice | Style
When to Use a Comma with “Too”
February 13, 2009 | Episode #157 | Punctuation