Z5-+Grammar+Girl

2-17-11 Rhetorical questions are when you ask something that you already know the answer. Like "Isn't that going to be fun." The second thing that this podcast talked about was about tag questions. An example of this is like " That's funny isn't it?" That was an example of a tag question.

2-21-11 Contractions are when two or more words are combined into one. When you combine two words into one you always use an apostaphi. An example is like...."She is a dancer." or when you combine them then you get..."she's a dancer."

2-28-11 The difference between a colon and a dash is that a dash is a stronger and is more informal. A colon is like part of a sentence that just goes along with it. It informs the reader that something more is coming along. The words after a colon clarifies what came before the colon. A dash also introduces extra material. It interrupts the flow of the statement and tells the reader that something more is coming up.

4-12-11 This grammar girl talks about if alright is one word or to, in this one it says that alright is actually spelled like all right. It also says that all together is spelled like that.

4-19-11 In this grammar girl It talked about capitalizing proper nouns and how the word internet should be capitalized and ground zero should be capitalized to.

4-19-11 This one talked about how April is national poetry month and today it talks about poetic license. Its when people don't use grammar correctly so people just let it go. People use this kind of stuff in poems and songs.

176 In this podcast it talks about subject-complement agreements. So like if someone said. “She’s my sister.” The part that is the complement is the part that is saying “She’s my sister.” And instead of saying “the player was hit with two pitches” you say “the batter was hit with two different pitches.” That way you know that the batter was hit with two different pitches and not with one pitch the same time.

184 Today it talked about capitalization and it’s over use and misses use in the business world. It matters because a words meaning can change when its lower case or upper case. When you lower case words those are called common nouns.

210 Today it talks about pronouns.

209. This Grammar girl is on a lesson about pronouns. It talks about how this one Olympic song verse was incorrect because they used I to rhyme with fly when they should have used “me” because in this song it would have been correct to say it that way. Pronouns fill in for Nouns.

211 Today grammar girls talks about myths. It talks about how a run on sentence is not a really long sentence. They can be short. In a run on sentence independent clauses are squished together without the help of punctuation or conjunction. And it also talks about how you can start a sentence with the word however. And also how irregardless is a word. And the last thing it talks about is how you can end a sentence with propitiation.

218 Today grammar girl talks about the difference between the words further and farther. A tip is to use farther for fiscal difference and further for meteorically.

228 today in grammar girl it talks about how to avoid the comma splice. It is one of the most common punctuation errors people make. one of the most common ways to use commas is to sepertate two main clases that are connected by a qudination conjunction. that just means when you join two things that could be sentences on there own with the words that are like and, but, or. you need a comma before the conjunction.

233 today in grammar girl it talked about the difference between parentheses, square brackets, and curly braces. And when you use them. and how people miss use them.