363 GG Writing Flashbacks
How to manage verb tense when writing flashbacks.
Episodes
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
Five-time winner of Best Education Podcast in the Podcast Awards. Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing and feed your love of the English language. Whether English is your first language or your second language, these grammar, punctuation, style, and business tips will make you a better and more successful writer. Grammar Girl is a Quick and Dirty Tips podcast.
Episodes
362 GG Why Are Some Portmanteaus So Awful?
My failed entries for the Clorox Ick-tionary.
361 GG Is That a Wool Sweater or a Woolen Sweater?
What to do when you can use an attributive noun or an adjective.
051 GG I'm Good
Is it OK to answer "How are you?" with "I'm good"?
359 GG Do You Tell People to Pound Sand or Pound Salt?
Deciphering crazy English idioms.
358 GG "Only": The Most Insidious Misplaced Modifier
How putting the word "only" in the wrong place can confuse your readers.
357 GG Why the Plural of "Die" Is "Dice," not "Douse."
Fossils of language
356 GG Where Do I Use Commas?
Are you a comma-kaze? Do you use commas like confetti? Don't use a comma everywhere you would pause when speaking. Check out the rules.
355 GG Subject Object
Why "I love you" is the easiest way ever to remember the difference between subject and object.
353 GG Can Apple Get Away with "Funness"?
and "renanoing"?
352 GG How to Create and Use Figures of Speech Pt.1
Make your messages more vivid, more memorable, and trigger emotional responses using anaphora, antithesis, and chiasmus.
351 GG Pronouns: Is a Company a "Who" or a "That"?
What pronoun should you use when referring to a company?
350 GG "Who" Versus "That"
Is Your Dog an "It" or a "She"?
349 GG A Word Lover's Highlights of 2012
The good, the bad, and the odd.
348 GG How Webster's Screwed Up
How an editor who hated the word "radical," became a radical.
347 GG How to Use a Hyphen
Learn how to use properly use hyphens with compound adjectives.
346 GG Tuxedo Verbs
Use rich verbs, but don't put them in tuxedos.
342 GG Writing for Dyslexic Readers
Tricks to make make your writing more accessible to people with dyslexia and visual impairments.
341 GG Google Ngram and "Impact" as a Verb
The updated Ngram Viewer gives new insight into word usage.
151 GG Just Say No to Drugs
"Dragged" versus "drug." The Grammar Girl print book is now available on Amazon.com! http://tinyurl.com/2pkej7
142 GG When Are Double Words OK?
Are "is is" and "had had" acceptable?
334 GG Using Present Tense in a Story About the Past
The girl who sat next to me is or was? named Stephanie.
333 GG When Is W a Vowel
A E I O U and sometimes Y, but also W?
332 GG How Do You Tell If Something Is True?
Debunking a believable grammar hoax.
331 GG "Pet" or "Petted"? Troublesome Past Tenses
Some verbs are becoming strangely irregular.
330 GG The Rules of Story
Why the Rules of Story Are Even More Immutable than the Rules of Grammar.
329 GG "Versus"
Get ready to write about the Olympics.
328 GG "Decimate" and "All Right"
Two troublesome words from Grammar Girl's new book.
327 GG "Dilemma" and "Gone Missing"
From 101 TROUBLESOME WORDS.
326 GG "Jealousy" Versus "Envy"
From 101 TROUBLESOME WORDS.