英语语法：213 Simplify Your Writing

Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is readability. And just to mix things up, Im bringing in Adam Freedman to host todays show. Adam is the author of The Party of the First Part, a witty, entertaining book about legalese that goes on sale September 4. I

英语语法：212 How to Format URLs in Text

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is how to treat URLs when you have to use them in text. Also, keep listening through to the end of the show because I have another writing contest for you. Web addresses are strange beasts; they seem more like equatio

英语语法：211 Grammar Style Issues

by Mignon Fogarty Today's topic is style guides. It's true that when it comes to grammar there are a lot of hard and fast rules; but it's also true that there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of issues that are dictated by style. I know it would be so

英语语法：210 Chicago Style

Grammar Girl here. Today's topics are style guides and how to deal with book titles. Joe called in with this question: With all of the style guides that are out there -- APA, MLA -- why would anyone use Chicago? I was finding it very hard to believe

英语语法：209 Zeroscape Versus Xeriscape

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the word xeriscape. This is kind of a self-indulgent podcast for me. I've been house hunting lately, and I swear if one more real estate agent tells me about a property's wonderful zeroscape, I'm going to rent for

英语语法：208 Writing with Slang

Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is Nothing Ages Writing Faster Than Slang. Guest writer Sal Glynn writes Slang is made of informal words and phrases that originate in speech, and often includes substitutions for formal words, like ride or wheels for

英语语法：207 Wordiness And Idioms

Grammar Girl here. Today I'm going to play two listener comments that will lead us to a discussion of wordiness and idioms. Wordiness First, here's Tod in Canada from the todbits.com website: Can you help me correct people? Everyone that I know seems

英语语法：206 Use the word woman as an adjective.

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is whether you can use the word woman as an adjective. Ann in Baltimore, Maryland, asked why people were referring to Nancy Pelosi as the woman Speaker of the House instead of the female speaker of the house, and Amy

英语语法：214 Title Capitalization Rules

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is capitalizing titles. In an email, Michelle from Manila asked, Should I capitalize all the first letters of the words in a title or just the first letter of the first word? This is one of those style questions. For

英语语法：198 What Is the Plural of Scissors?

Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is when plurals have no singular. A listener named Brent called in with this question: I have a question: how come pants, trousers, slacks, corduroys are all plurals even though there is only one of them? Guest writer

英语语法：205 Woman Versus Female

Grammar Girl here. Today's show will cover the difference between the words woman and female. First we had Nancy Pelosi taking over as Speaker of the House, then Hillary Clinton running for president, and now we have Sarah Palin as the Republican vic

英语语法：204 Why Isn't “Gruntled” a Word?

Grammar Girl here. Today, guest writer Bonnie Trenga is going to tell us why were never gruntled, sheveled, or in whack, but why we are often disgruntled, disheveled, and out of whack. Bonnie says, Thanks to an interesting question from Glenn, well b

英语语法：203 Whose for Inanimate Objects

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic, whose was written by guest writer Bonnie Trenga. First, for those of you who didn't listen all the way to the end of last week's show and were outraged that I used the words irregardless and cogitate; it was a joke;

英语语法：202 Who Versus Whom

Today's topic is who versus whom. I've received three requests from listeners to cover this topic. Here's Noreen: I just wondered if possibly in one of your episodes you could go through the use of who versus whom. I think that's a common misundersta

英语语法：201 Who Versus That

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is who versus that. Lesley called in with this question: My pet peeve is who versus that, as in You know Bob, he's the guy that sold me my car. It drives me nuts. Or am I mistaken and it's just become part of the new

英语语法：199 What to Call People With Disabilities.

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the language of disability and disease. When I was a technical writer, questions came up all the time about how to write about people with medical conditions. So today, guest-writer Bonnie Trenga will educate us. W

英语语法：197 A Versus An

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is a versus an. A lot of people learned the rule that you put a before words that start with consonants and an before words that start with vowels, but it's actually a bit more complicated than that. For example, here

英语语法：196 Threw, Through, Thru

Grammar girl here. For this show, Twilight from the Twilight and Thebes Show called in with a question about homophones: Now, here's Twilight: I'm confused with the word through, [as in] I looked through this pile of papers. It can't be threw because

英语语法：195 Regionalisms

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is What's with those people who talk weird? or regionalisms. Language is constantly changing, and a lot of people have asked me about how and why it happens. This isn't my area of expertise, but I've done a lot of rea

英语语法：194 On Accident Versus by Accident

Grammar Girl here. Today I'm going to talk about on accident versus by accident and how language changes. Some of the most difficult questions I get are from non-native English speakers who want to know why we use a particular preposition in a specif