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A Recast of ‘Grammar Girl: For Writers and Language Lovers.’

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.


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Recastable Episodes (1039)

1. 11 Grammar Style Issues Sept. 7, 2006
2. 015 Title Capitalization Rules Sept. 24, 2006
3. Excessive Redundant Redundancies Oct. 8, 2006
4. 165 Abbreviations, Acronyms, And Initialisms Oct. 10, 2006
5. 021 Proofreading Tips Oct. 20, 2006
6. 024 Who Versus That Nov. 4, 2006
7. 031 The Lord Is Come? Dec. 15, 2006
8. 036 Grammar Manners Jan. 12, 2007
9. 042 Semicolons Feb. 21, 2007
10. 266 When Should You Capitalize Cocktail and Food Names? March 11, 2007
11. 048 April Fools' Day Episode April 1, 2007
12. 055 Misplaced Modifiers May 18, 2007
13. 056 Generating Story Ideas and Overcoming Writer's Block May 22, 2007
14. 064 Between You and Me June 26, 2007
15. 065 Regionalisms June 29, 2007
16. 068 Unlawful Versus Illegal July 20, 2007
17. 067 Your Versus You're July 20, 2007
18. 070 The Asterisk (Trust Me About Grammar, Not About Baseball) Aug. 10, 2007
19. 072 The The -- The Double The Aug. 23, 2007
20. 073 Simplify Your Writing Aug. 30, 2007
21. 076 Starting a Sentence With "Hopefully" Sept. 21, 2007
22. 077 Verbification of a Noun Sept. 28, 2007
23. 078 Formatting Hyperlinks Oct. 5, 2007
24. 082 Daylight-Saving Time Nov. 9, 2007
25. 083 Interviewing Tips Nov. 9, 2007
26. 084 People Versus Entities Nov. 16, 2007
27. 087 Used to Versus Use to, and Other Listener Questions Dec. 7, 2007
28. 090 Went Missing Jan. 4, 2008
29. 091 Yo as a Pronoun Jan. 10, 2008
30. 093 Hyphens Jan. 31, 2008
31. 095 Zeroscape Versus Xeriscape Feb. 15, 2008
32. 096 May Versus Might Feb. 21, 2008
33. 098 Who Versus Whom--Advanced March 7, 2008
34. 007 Which Versus That March 21, 2008
35. 100 How to Write Numbers March 28, 2008
36. 107 Graduated versus Graduated From May 15, 2008
37. 108 Whose for Inanimate Objects May 23, 2008
38. 110 When to Leave Out "That" June 6, 2008
39. 113 Writing with Slang June 27, 2008
40. 114 Phrasal Verbs July 4, 2008
41. 116 "Than I" Versus "Than Me" July 10, 2008
42. 123 How to Avoid Clichés July 15, 2008
43. 118 Writing Accents and Dialects July 18, 2008
44. 120 He Said, She Said July 25, 2008
45. 122 Is "Have Got" Acceptable English? Aug. 1, 2008
46. 124 Better Versus Best Aug. 8, 2008
47. 125 Comparatives Versus Superlatives Aug. 12, 2008
48. 126 - Through, Threw, and Thru Aug. 14, 2008
49. 127 Begs the Question Aug. 19, 2008
50. 129 Assure Versus Ensure Versus Insure Aug. 25, 2008
51. 131 Collective Nouns Sept. 2, 2008
52. 136 Complex-Compound Sentences Sept. 19, 2008
53. 139 Is "Data" Singular or Plural? Oct. 3, 2008
54. 140 Modifying Phrases at the Beginning of Sentences Oct. 10, 2008
55. 141 Appositives Oct. 17, 2008
56. 144 Concrete Versus Cement Nov. 7, 2008
57. 146 Mixed Metaphors Nov. 13, 2008
58. 012 Wordiness And Idioms Nov. 21, 2008
59. 148 How to Write Your First Novel Dec. 12, 2008
60. 150 How to Podcast a Book Dec. 26, 2008
61. 155 What to Call People With Disabilities. Jan. 30, 2009
62. 156 What is the plural of scissors Feb. 6, 2009
63. 157 GG When to Use a Comma with “Too” Feb. 13, 2009
64. 158 "Flammable" Versus "Inflammable" Feb. 20, 2009
65. 161 "Use" Versus "Utilize" March 13, 2009
66. 162 How to Write a Great Blog Comment March 20, 2009
67. 177 Why Are British English and American English Different? April 3, 2009
68. 164 "One" Versus "You" April 3, 2009
69. 182 Are You Annoyingly Redundant? April 7, 2009
70. 166 Strunk and White April 17, 2009
71. 167 Dashes Versus Colons April 23, 2009
72. 168 Troublesome Contractions (e.g., I'd've) May 1, 2009
73. 169 Using “For” to Mean “Because” May 9, 2009
74. 170 Swear Words in Text May 15, 2009
75. 172 "All Right" Versus "Alright" May 29, 2009
76. 174 "Myself" June 12, 2009
77. 178 Do Rhetorical Questions Need a Question Mark? July 10, 2009
78. 179 Can You Start a Sentence with “Which”? July 17, 2009
79. 119 "Shall" Versus "Will" July 22, 2009
80. 180 How to Use Parallel Construction Correctly July 24, 2009
81. 176 What Is Subject-Complement Agreement? July 26, 2009
82. 181 How Many Spaces After A Period? July 30, 2009
83. 184 When Should You Capitalize Words? Aug. 1, 2009
84. 183 Verbs Sandwiched Between Singular and Plural Nouns Aug. 14, 2009
85. 185 When Should You Capitalize Titles? Aug. 28, 2009
86. 186 Funny Misplaced Modifiers Sept. 4, 2009
87. 187 Should Writers Keep a Journal? Sept. 11, 2009
88. 188 "Comprise" Versus "Compose" Sept. 18, 2009
89. 190 Ellipses Spurned Sept. 25, 2009
90. 191 How to Write a Complaint Letter Oct. 2, 2009
91. 193 "Diffuse" Versus "Defuse" Oct. 16, 2009
92. 196 Adverbs Ending in -ly Nov. 13, 2009
93. 197 "Where" Versus "In Which" Nov. 19, 2009
94. 199 "Alternate" Versus "Alternative" Dec. 5, 2009
95. 201 Is “Ain't” a Word? Dec. 25, 2009
96. 204 Is "Got" Proper English? Jan. 14, 2010
97. 203 How Do You Pronounce 2010? Jan. 18, 2010
98. 205 Readers Share Their Funny Errors Jan. 21, 2010
99. 206 Is "I'm Loving It" Proper Grammar? Jan. 29, 2010
100. 209 Does the Olympic Theme Song “I Believe” Have a Grammar Error? Feb. 19, 2010
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