Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies
A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
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.
ISBN/EAN | 9780143036838 |
Auteur | June Casagrande |
Uitgever | Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. |
Taal | Engels |
Uitvoering | Paperback / gebrocheerd |
Pagina's | 226 |
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