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Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

610 - Top 10 Grammar Myths. How 13 Dog Breeds Got Their Names.

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

Mignon Fogarty, Inc.

Society & Culture, Education

4.52.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Celebrate National Grammar Day (March 4) by forsaking these common language myths. Also, enter our limerick contest and we might read your limerick in the next Grammar Girl podcast. (Details: http://bit.ly/ACES_limerick2018). Also, some dog breed names are obvious ("retriever," anyone?), but we have the origin of 13 that are more mysterious. FOLLOW ALONG ON THE WEBSITE GRAMMAR MYTHS http://bit.ly/grammarTop10 DOG BREEDS http://bit.ly/dogBreedNames FOLLOW GRAMMAR GIRL Twitter: http://twitter.com/grammargirl Facebook: http://facebook.com/grammargirl Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/realgrammargirl Instagram: http://instagram.com/thegrammargirl LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grammar-girl GRAMMAR POP Optimized for iPad: http://bit.ly/GrammarPopiPad For iPad and iPhone: http://bit.ly/GrammarPop GRAMMAR GIRL BOOKS http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl-book-page Thank you to Ellen Hendriksen of the Savvy Psychologist podcast for being the voice of this week's show! https://www.ellenhendriksen.com/

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0:00.0

Hello everyone!

0:06.4

Minion has a terrible cold, so I'm Ellen Hendrickson, the host of a different Quick and Dirty Tips

0:12.7

podcast, The Savvy Psychologist, and I'm gonna narrate Grammar Girl for you today.

0:18.9

This week, because it's National Grammar Day on March 4th, we have a list of Minion's

0:24.0

top 10 language myths.

0:26.3

And then, because it's also the Chinese Year of the Dog, we have a rundown of some fun

0:31.5

origins of the names of dog breeds.

0:35.0

And at the very end, I'm gonna tell you about a National Grammar Day Limerick contest

0:39.8

you can enter on Twitter.

0:44.5

And now, on to those language myths.

0:48.0

March 4th is National Grammar Day, so I have a special top 10 show to celebrate the

0:53.9

occasion.

0:54.9

And before you argue with me, listen to the whole explanation about why each of these

1:00.5

is a myth.

1:02.2

So here are Grammar Girls Top 10 Language Myths.

1:07.0

Number 10.

1:08.0

A run-on sentence is a really long sentence.

1:11.7

Wrong, they can actually be quite short.

1:14.9

In a run-on sentence, independent clauses are squished together without the help of punctuation

1:21.1

or conjunction.

1:22.7

If you write, I am short, he is tall, as one sentence without a semicolon, colon, or

1:28.9

dash between the two independent clauses, it's a run-on sentence, even though it only has

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