Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies
A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Grammar, Entertainment, Humour & Comedy, General Humour
| Author: | June Casagrande | ISBN: | 9781101221389 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group | Publication: | March 28, 2006 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | June Casagrande |
| ISBN: | 9781101221389 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication: | March 28, 2006 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
