At-Home Grammar and Writing Lessons for Families
Looking for grammar and writing lessons for your children while you’re all home together? Mignon Fogarty, QDT’s Grammar Girl, has hundreds of tips and tricks you can learn in your own house.
Check out the episodes below for QDT’s top grammar lessons and tips, sure to be enjoyed by parents and children alike. You can listen to the podcast with the embedded player or click the link to read the transcript. These are just a selection. Find the entire archive with hundreds of articles and audio files here.
opens in a new windowSingle Quotation Marks Versus Double Quotation Marks
opens in a new window4 Tips for Tackling Midterm Essays (text only)
opens in a new windowHow to Write a Conclusion
opens in a new windowIrregular Verbs
opens in a new windowWhat Is Point of View
opens in a new windowAre You Using Hyphens Correctly?
opens in a new windowColons (text only)
opens in a new windowPronoun Order
opens in a new windowHow to Use ‘Myself’ and Other Reflexive Pronouns
opens in a new windowHow to Use Semicolons (text only)
opens in a new windowParts of Speech (text only)
opens in a new window3 Tips for Students to Strengthen Their Writing This Semester (text only)
opens in a new window3 Brainstorming Techniques to Help You Craft the Perfect Essay
opens in a new windowHow to Write an Analytical Essay in 4 Easy Steps (text only)
opens in a new windowWhen to Use Commas Before Quotations (text only)
opens in a new windowApostrophes (The segment about apostrophes starts at 4:20 in the audio below.)
opens in a new windowWhen to Use—and Not Use—an Em-Dash (The segment about dashes starts at 4:52 in the audio below.)
opens in a new windowGrammar Girls ‘A’ Versus ‘An’ Quiz
opens in a new windowCan You Ace Grammar Girl’s English Quiz?
opens in a new windowHomophones and Homographs Quiz
opens in a new windowWho’ Versus ‘Whom’ Quiz