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Grammar Minute

Lauren Smyth

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Saving the English language 60 seconds at a time.

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Episodes (264)

SPECIAL EPISODE: Interview with Sophia Hansen, Author of Water's Break

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Oct 15, 202432:52pending

RERUN: It's Not Unlikely That You've Seen This Before

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Oct 15, 20241:01pending

Inflammable: In Flames or Un-Flammable?

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Oct 9, 20241:01pending

Imply vs. Infer

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Oct 8, 20241:01pending

RERUN: Hoot Owls, Humans, and the Who/Whom Debate

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Oct 3, 20241:00pending

RERUN: Cats & Compound Nouns

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Oct 1, 20241:01pending

Is English Really That Hard?

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Sep 26, 20241:01pending

Should You Put a Comma Before "And?"

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Sep 24, 20241:01pending

SPECIAL EPISODE: Interview with Dr. Hugh Ross, Author of The Creator and the Cos...

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Sep 20, 202434:57pending

Corporations Aren't Alive (Singular "They")

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Sep 19, 20241:01pending

Incomplete Comparisons

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Sep 17, 20241:01pending

Does Your Story Really Need an Ellipsis?

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Sep 12, 20241:01pending

Recap: "Affect" vs. "Effect"

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Sep 10, 20241:01pending

"Enamored of" or "Enamored With?"

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Sep 5, 20241:01pending

How to Get What You Want

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Sep 3, 20241:01pending

You Were Being Chased--By An Alligator!

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Jun 27, 20241:01pending

Run, Forrest, Run--But Not Too Far!

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Jun 24, 20241:01pending

Way Back Then Was Better Than You Thought

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May 2, 20241:01pending

What Do You Mean, There's No Grammar Minute?!

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Apr 30, 20241:00pending

"She laughed softly" or "she softly laughed?"

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Apr 25, 20241:01pending

Why "an hour" but not "a hotel?"

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Apr 23, 20241:01pending

"Mean You" - Subjective vs. Objective

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Apr 18, 20241:01pending

Commas After Adverbs

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Apr 16, 20241:01pending

SPECIAL EPISODE: Interview with YA Science Fiction Author Lyndsey Lewellen

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Apr 15, 202422:01pending

Single-Sentence Paragraphs

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Apr 10, 20241:01pending

SPECIAL EPISODE: Interview with Cathy McCrumb, Science Fiction Author

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Apr 8, 202421:59pending

Preposition Endings - When You Don't Need Them

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Apr 4, 20241:01pending

Diaereses: The Best of Diacritical Marks

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Apr 3, 20241:01pending

The Compelling Case for Admirable Adjectives

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Mar 28, 20241:01pending

The Infamous "Not Un-"

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Mar 26, 20241:01pending

The Magic of "Iff"

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Mar 22, 20241:01pending

The Case for Ungrammatical Emails

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Mar 21, 20241:00pending

You're LITERALLY So Wrong!

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Mar 14, 20241:01pending

Prepping for the Nuclear Apocalypse

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Mar 12, 20241:01pending

"Based On" vs. "Based Off"

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Mar 7, 20241:01pending

Dr. Steele's Spelling Minute: British vs. American Words

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Mar 5, 20241:01pending

It's Voting Season: Grammar Matters (Maybe More than You Think)

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Feb 29, 20241:01pending

That vs Who (Will Make You Sound Smart)

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Feb 27, 20241:01pending

"More Than" vs. "Over" (Sorry, AP Style Guide)

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Feb 22, 20241:01pending

The Most Grammatically Confusing Holiday (Presidents' Day)

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Feb 20, 20241:01pending

Plurals vs. Apostrophes (A Bigger Rivalry Than the Super Bowl)

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Feb 15, 20241:01pending

It's All Well and Good (Can You Say "I Feel Good?")

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Feb 13, 20241:01pending

Discrete vs. Discreet (Hint: It's Not British vs. American)

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Feb 8, 20241:01pending

The Enormity of Commonly Misused Words, Part 2

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Feb 6, 20241:01pending

The Power of Short Sentences

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Feb 1, 20241:01pending

Do you ever get anything "for free?"

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Jan 30, 20241:01pending

SPECIAL EPISODE: "Haven" Sci-Fi Audio Drama

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Jan 3, 202411:59pending

Using Foreign Words in English Writing

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Nov 23, 20231:00pending

A Writer Responds to ChatGPT

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Nov 21, 20231:01pending

Pronoun Abuse - Stop It. Get Some Help.

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Nov 16, 20231:01pending