英语语法：56 How to Use "Myself"

Legal Lad here, filling in again for Grammar Girl. The poor girl is still sick. She asked me to thank everyone who has sent get well messages. She appreciates them a lot. Today's topic is how to use the word myself. Grammar Girl says that how to use

英语语法：57 How to Use Italics

Today were going to talk about italics, that slanted type that you sometimes see amidst regular roman type. Following the Rules Open up any style guide and it'll give you a list of items that need to be italicized. The important thing to remember is

英语语法：58 Use Parallel Construction Correctly

Grammar Girl here. This week we have a new guest writer, Rob Reinalda, who is going to help us look at something called a false series. You may ask, What the heck is that? Well find out in a moment. A Parallel Construction Problem: the False Series A

英语语法：62 How to Write Percents

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is part II of the series on numbers: percentages and decimal points. Percent Versus Percentage First let's get our terminology right. In some cases percent and percentage can be interchangeable (1), but the easiest wa

英语语法：63 Hyphens

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is hyphens. On Monday afternoon Pat was watching the cable channel CNBC and called me over to the TV because the hosts were talking about hyphens. Yup, in the middle of a segment on the economy, they started talking a

英语语法：69 Metaphors and Similes

Hi! This is Stever Robbins, host of the Get-it-Done Guys Quick and Dirty Tips to Work Less and Do More. Grammar Girl is working on her book this week and since I do a lot of public speaking, she asked me to talk about how to use similes and metaphors

英语语法：70 Misplaced Modifiers

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is misplaced modifiers. Of all the writing errors you can make, misplaced modifiers are among the most likely to confuse your readers, but they're also kind of fun because misplaced modifiers can give your sentences s

英语语法：55 How to Podcast a Book

Grammar Girl here. This is a podcast that talks about writing, but today we're going to turn that order around and talk about podcasting that writing of yours. Whether you write fiction or non-fiction, childrens stories or tales for adults, podcastin

英语语法：53 Greeting Card Grammar

Grammar Girl here. The holidays are upon us, so it's time to answer questions about how to write greeting cards and party invitations. Here's Elaina: Hi. I have a question about the plural form of last names. For example, if the last name is Alvarez,

英语语法：49 A Few Short Questions

Grammar Girl here. I get a lot of questions about things that are too short to make up a whole podcast, so today I'm going to answer a few of those short questions. So here's our first listener question. Dreamed Versus Dreamt Hi Grammar Girl. D. Chap

英语语法：43 Your Singing or You Singing

Sometimes theres a topic that doesnt quite defy explanation but certainly gives one pause in the undertaking. Lucky usthats where we find ourselves today. Why gerunds take a possessive before them. Oy. What's a Gerund? Lets start with what a gerund i

英语语法：44 Do You Overuse "Of"?

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is nixing the horrid of. Almost everyone has a few bad writing habits. They're often the kind of thing experts or even your friends can point to and say Yup, I know who wrote that. One of my bad habits is that I tend

英语语法：26 Words that Sound Funny

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is words that sound funny. Funny ha ha, not funny weird. And now, on to funny words. Guest writer Kevin Cummings, of the Shortcomings Audio podcast, writes, I had my first comedy hit with the phrase itty-bitty kidneys

英语语法：27 Yo as a Pronoun

Yo! Grammar Girl here. I have grammar news about the word yo this week. Listen through to the end because YOU may be able to help a language researcher. The grammar news is that Dr. Elaine Stotko, from the School of Education at Johns Hopkins Univers

英语语法：28 Yoda Grammar

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is Yoda's grammar. Yes, Yoda from Star Wars. But first I have to apologize for a mispronunciation last week. The name of the author I was talking about is pronounced Proost, not Prowst. It's Marcel Proost. I'm sorry t

英语语法：33 Apostrophes

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is apostrophes. A couple of weeks ago Legal Lad did a show about homeowners associations. What you didn't hear was that behind the scenes, Steve, one of our copy editors, debated whether to put an apostrophe in the wo

英语语法：34 Appositives

Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is appositives. Guest-writer Bonnie Trenga writes, Today we have to decide if information is essential or extra, because if its extra well need some extra commas. The concept Im referring to is called an appositive. A

英语语法：35 Between Me and You?

Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is going to help us talk about me and I and how to order them in a sentence if you're using other pronouns or nouns to make a compound object or subject. It all started with a call from a listener w

英语语法：36 Between You and Me

Grammar Girl here. Just between you and me, today I'm going to talk about the pronouns I and me. I've been meaning to talk about the phrase between you and I for a while, but when I heard that Hillary Clinton had chosen the song You and I by Celine D

英语语法：16 The Lord Is Come?

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is subversive Christmas carols. And now, on to our question. There's a listener named Kat whose holiday joy is crushed every time she hears the Christmas carol Joy to the World. She asks: Why do we sing 'Joy to the wo