Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite

ISBN-13: 9780143036838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str.

June Casagrande

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What do suicidal pandas, doped-up rock stars, and a naked Pamela Anderson have in common? They re all a heck of a lot more interesting than reading about predicate nominatives and hyphens. June Casagrande knows this and has invented a whole new twist on the grammar book. Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies is a laugh-out-loud funny collection of anecdotes and essays on grammar and punctuation, as well as hilarious critiques of the self-appointed language experts.Chapters include:

• I m Writing This While Naked The Oh-So Steamy Predicate Nominative
• Semicolonoscopy Colons, Semicolons, Dashes, and Other Probing Annoyances
• I ll Take "I Feel Like a Moron" for $200, Alex When to Put Punctuation Inside Quotation Marks
• Snobbery Up with Which You Should Not Put Up Prepositions
• Is That a Dangler in Your Memo or Are You Just Glad to See Me?
• Hyphens Life-Sucking, Mom-and-Apple-Pie-Hating, Mime-Loving, Nerd-Fight-Inciting Daggers of the Damned

Casagrande delivers practical and fun language lessons not found anywhere else, demystifying the subject and taking it back from the snobs. In short, it s a grammar book people will actually want to read just for the fun of it."