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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 minatives and hyphens. June Casagrande kws this and has invented a whole new twist on the grammar book. <b>Grammar Sbs Are Great Big Meanies</b> 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: </p><ul><li>I m Writing This While Naked The Oh-So Steamy Predicate Nominative</p></li><li>Semicoloscopy Colons, Semicolons, Dashes, and Other Probing Anyances</p></li><li>I ll Take I Feel Like a Moron for $200, Alex When to Put Punctuation Inside Quotation Marks</p></li><li>Sbbery Up with Which You Should Not Put Up Prepositions</p></li><li>Is That a Dangler in Your Memo or Are You Just Glad to See Me?</p></li><li>Hyphens Life-Sucking, Mom-and-Apple-Pie-Hating, Mime-Loving, Nerd-Fight-Inciting Daggers of the Damned</p></li></ul>Casagrande delivers practical and fun language lessons t found anywhere else, demystifying the subject and taking it back from the sbs. In short, it s a grammar book people will actually want to read just for the fun of it.</p>Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Putnam Inc
ISBN-100143036831
ISBN-139780143036838
eBay Product ID (ePID)182874097
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SubjectUsage & Writing Guides
LanguageEnglish
AuthorJune Casagrande
FormatPaperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (Us) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
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Date of Publication01/12/2006
Country of PublicationUnited States
Author BiographyJune Casagrande writes the popular and very humorous A Word, Please grammar column for four <i>Los Angeles Times</i> community newspapers. She has written over 900 articles for various newspapers and magazines and has four years of improvisational comedy training.
ImprintThe Penguin Press
