All about Me, or It Is I? Beware the Wild Pronoun!

ISBN-13: 9781425107604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 140 str.

Gwynneth T. Heaton

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Readers of this book will capture many wild pronouns, and never start a sentence with me again. All weapons are used to tame our beastly pronouns, to sort out the differences between me and I, and to help everyone to use pronouns correctly.
The pronouns are holding a conference to determine their places in the English language. Me is tired of being an object and although he fights to be allowed to serve as a subject, the conference firmly puts him into his objective place. Mine is so busy with her possessions she has trouble getting to the podium to speak. You is flamboyant and a braggart.
Throughout the book, serious explanations about the pronouns are mixed with humorous discussions amongst the pronouns themselves. Numerous examples provide both correct and incorrect pronoun placement, while exercises (with answers at the back) help readers to put pronouns into their writing.
Serving as a comprehensive reference book, All About Me, Or Is It I? will help anyone who wants to speak or write good English, and who finds pronouns confusing. It can be used as a teaching aid, a reference book, and for intense individual study. Teachers, media staff, parents, writers, speakers, advanced ESL learners, and anyone aged 13 and above will enjoy teaching or learning from this book.
The author, a Canadian academic librarian, has spent most of her life in scholarly libraries and has written extensively in her field.