Online sensation Grammar Girl makes grammar fun and easy in this New York Times bestseller
Are you stumped by split infinitives? Terrified of using "who" when a "whom" is called for? Do you avoid the words "affect" and "effect" altogether?
Grammar Girl is here to help!
Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, is determined to wipe out bad grammar—but she's also determined to make the process as painless as possible. A

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"An updated edition of the classic tip-a-day grammar guide from New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Grammar Girl podcast, Mignon Fogarty. One hundred million podcast downloads say it all: Mignon Fogarty's kicky, practical, and easy-to-remember advice about style and usage has won her fans around the globe. Her first book, Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and her weekly...

Previously published as part of Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing. Online sensation Grammar Girl makes punctuation fun and easy in Grammar Girl's Punctuation 911. Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, is determined to wipe out bad punctuation-but she's also determined to make the process as painless as possible. A couple of years ago, she created a weekly podcast to tackle some of the most common mistakes people make with grammar....

Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 30 million times. Now she's turning her attention to improving our vocabulary-one word at a time-with Grammar Girl's 101 Words Every High School Graduate Needs to Know. Not sure whether your post-high school vocabulary is up to snuff? This handy reference guide is a great starting...

Develop the skills you need to avoid common grammar mistakes and improve the clarity of your writing. Let’s face it. Grammar matters, regardless of what anyone says. Good grammar improves the clarity of your writing, enhances critical thinking skills, and increases a reader’s confidence in your writing and ideas. But are you really supposed to memorize every single rule? No, but you do need to be careful to avoid common mistakes. In this course,...

Good punctuation creates signposts in your sentences, telling your readers when to pause, what to expect next, and more. Learn how to use punctuation with confidence. Help your readers understand your writing easily and fully by leveraging the basics of good punctuation. In this course, instructor Mignon Fogarty, better known as Grammar Girl, shows you how. First, she introduces the apostrophe and how it is used to show ownership, make contractions,...

Entrez dans la vie de Grammar Girl, alias Mignon Fogarty, qui vous enseignera la grammaire anglaise de manière amusante et qui a su tirer son épingle du jeu de son génie créatif. Documentaire, États-Unis, version originale avec sous-titres en français. Que l’on écrive en anglais avec assurance ou non, la grammaire fait partie des sujets qui laissent perplexe. Mais Grammar Girl, alias Mignon Fogarty, a compris que la grammaire pouvait être...

English is filled with troublesome words that can seem designed to trick you. Learn how to master the use of these words to write with more confidence and protect your credibility. Have you ever had to cite a sight you saw while on site? English has many troublesome words that people commonly confuse, which can lead to misunderstandings, confusion, and embarrassment. Using the wrong word can affect your credibility and have an adverse effect on communication....

Mignon Fogarty can't remember whether it was a misused semicolon, a chronic case of comma splicing, or an "affect" when an "effect" was called for, but at some point she had seen one mangled sentence too many. Determined to counter the slipping standards of good writing in daily discourse, Mignon created a weekly podcast called Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing to reach all offenders-from the intimidated to the apathetic. In less...