Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143036838)

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.

Author: June Casagrande
ISBN-10: 0143036831
ISBN-13: 9780143036838
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2006
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.14h x 5.80w x 0.59d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2006 pg. 10
Library Journal 02/27/2006