Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies by June Casagrande

Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies by June Casagrande

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.

JUNE CASAGRANDE is the author of the weekly syndicated A Word, Please grammar column and a copy editor for the custom publishing department of the Los Angeles Times. She has worked as a reporter, features writer, city editor, proofreader, and copyediting instructor for UC San Diego Extension. She is the author of Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies, Mortal Syntax, and It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences. She lives in Pasadena, California, with her husband. Visit www.junecasagrande.com.

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ISBN 13	9780143036838
ISBN 10	0143036831
Title	Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies
Author	June Casagrande
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2006-03-28
Number of pages	224
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.