Mignon Fogarty, the creator of Grammar Girl and the founder of the Quick and Dirty Tips network, is also the author of The New York Times bestselling GRAMMAR GIRL'S QUICK AND DIRTY TIPS FOR BETTER WRITING and THE GRAMMAR DEVOTIONAL. Her straightforward, bite-sized tips on grammar have led to features in the New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and an appearance on Oprah. She lives in Reno, Nevada.
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Mignon Fogarty can't remember whether it was a misused semicolon, a chronic case of comma splicing, or an 'affect' when an 'effect' was called for, but at some point she had seen one mangled sentence too many. Determined to counter the slipping standards ... SEE MORE