Archive of Grammar & Composition Blogs: 2007-2012

Keep up with this year's posts at About.com Grammar & Composition.

Stinky sentences, confusables, flapdoodle, sentence variety, make-believe grammar, dressed-down prose, figures of speech in the movies, and much more: a roundup of blog posts from Grammar & Composition in 2011.

Maxims, fish stories, barbarisms, monosyllables, capital letters, bureaucratese, loanwords, grammatical zeros, Safire's Fumblerules, Sorensen's speech writing, questions in Casablanca, and much more: a roundup of blog posts from Grammar & Composition in 2010.

Ghost words, demonyms, ifferisms, Humpty Dumpty's verbs, Obama's rhetoric, the bugbear style, double genitives, spelling reform, Larry David's verb tenses, Stephen Colbert's metaphors, and much more: a roundup of blog posts from Grammar & Composition in 2009.

Bailouts, mavericks, irony deficiency, Dr. Seuss, chiasmus, annoying words, Golden Bulls, eponyms, George Carlin, apostroflies, Stephen King, family slang, and more: a roundup of blogs from Grammar & Composition in 2008.

Essay exams, sentence combining, participial phrases, Bushisms, quote abuse, Mark Twain, spell checkers, Pink Floyd, wild apostrophes, lost hyphens, Monty Python, sprezzatura, Homer Simpson, and more: a roundup of blogs from Grammar & Composition in 2007.