Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and SpiteWhat 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:
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. |
Contents
Passing the SIMPSONS TESTIts Till Not Til | 3 |
Is That a Dangler in Your Memo or Are You Just Glad to See | |
Things | |
LifeSucking MomandApplePie Hating MimeLoving Nerd | |
Ill Take I Feel Like a Moron for 200 AlexWhen to Put Punctuation Inside Quotation Marks | |
A Chapter Dedicated to Those Other Delights of Punctuation | |
Hot Stuff for the Truly DesperateConjunctions to Know and Conjunctions That Blow | |
R U Uptite?Shortcuts in the Digital Age and the Meanies Who Hate Them 19 Literally Schmiterally | |
How to Impress Brad PittAffect versus Effect | |
And You Too Can Begin Sentences with And So But and Because | |
Your Boss Is Not JesusPossessives and Words Ending in S x and | |
The Silence of the LinguistsDouble Possessives and Possessives with Gerunds | |
Im Writing This While NakedThe OhSoSteamy Predicate Nominative | |
Wish I May I Wish I Might for Once in My Life Get This One RightMay versus Might Different From versus Different Than Between versus Among... | |
A Backyard Barbecue in the Back Yard A FrontYard Barbecue in the Front YardThe Magical Moment When Two Words Become | |
How to Never Ever Offend Anyone with Inadvertently Sexist or Racist Language | |
How to Drop Out of High School in the Ninth Grade and Still Make Big Bucks Telling People How to Use Good GrammarThat versus Which | |
Well Well Arent You Good?Adverbs Love Action | |
Fodder for Those MothersIrregardless and Other Slipups We Nonsnobs Cant Afford | |
Wish I Were BatgirlThe Subjunctive Mood | |
Mommys All Wrong Daddys All WrongThe Truth about Cans and Dones | |
The Kids Are All WrongAlright Dropping The Before the The Where to Put Your Only and Other Lessons from the World of Rock n Roll | |
Complete Sentences? Optional | |
ItsIts a Classroom DitzOr How I Learned to Stop Fuming and Love the Jerkwad | |
Eight Nine 10 11How to Write Numbers | |
Satans Vocabulary | |
You Really Can Look It | |
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Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite June Casagrande No preview available - 2006 |
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