{"product_id":"grammar-snobs-are-great-big-meanies-isbn-9780143036838","title":"Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies","description":"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. \u003cb\u003eGrammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cp\u003eChapters include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’m Writing This While Naked—The Oh-So Steamy Predicate Nominative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eSemicolonoscopy—Colons, Semicolons, Dashes, and Other Probing Annoyances\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’ll Take \"I Feel Like a Moron\" for $200, Alex—When to Put Punctuation Inside Quotation Marks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eSnobbery Up with Which You Should Not Put Up—Prepositions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs That a Dangler in Your Memo or Are You Just Glad to See Me?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eHyphens—Life-Sucking, Mom-and-Apple-Pie-Hating, Mime-Loving, Nerd-Fight-Inciting Daggers of the Damned\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eCasagrande 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.\u003c\/p\u003eGrammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies\u003cb\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/b\u003e Grammar Snobs Make Good Prison Brides\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. A Snob For All Seasons—\u003c\/b\u003eShared Possessives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. For Whom The Snob Trolls—\u003c\/b\u003e\"Who\"\/\"Whom\" and Why You're Right Not to Care\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Passing The \u003ci\u003eSimpsons\u003c\/i\u003e Test—\u003c\/b\u003e It's \"Till,\" Not \"Til\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. To Boldly Blow—\u003c\/b\u003eOnly Windbags Fuss over Split Infinitives\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. The Sexy Mistake—\u003c\/b\u003e\"To Lay\" versus \"To Lie\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Snobbery Up With Which You Should Not Put—\u003c\/b\u003ePrepositions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Is That A Dangler In Your Memo Or Are You Just Glad To See Me?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. An Open Letter To Someone Who Knows I Once Tried To Be A Grammar Snob But Failed—\u003c\/b\u003e\"Dreamed\" versus \"Dreamt,\" \"Preventive\" versus \"Preventative,\" and Similar Pairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Anarchy Rules—\u003c\/b\u003e \"Adviser\"\/Advisor,\" \"Titled\"\/\"Entitled,\" and Other Ways to Be Right and Wrong at the Same Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. The Comma Denominator—\u003c\/b\u003eGood News: No One Knows How to Use These Things\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. Semicolonoscopy—\u003c\/b\u003eColons, Semicolons, Dashes, Hyphens, and Other Probing Annoyances\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e12. The O.C.: Where The '80s Never Die—\u003c\/b\u003eLessons on the Apostrophe from Behind the Orange Curtain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e13. Go Ahead, Make Up Your Own Words—\u003c\/b\u003ePrefixes and Suffixes and Why the Dictionary Thinks You're Wrong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e14. Hyphens: Life-Sucking, Mom-And-Apple-Pie-Hating, Mime-Loving, Nerd-Fight-Inciting Daggers Of The Damned\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e15. I'll Take \"I Feel Like A Moron\" For $200, Alex—\u003c\/b\u003eWhen to Put Punctuation Inside Quotation Marks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e16. A Chapter Dedicated To Those Other Delights Of Punctuation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e17. Copulative Conjunctions: Hot Stuff For The Truly Desperate—\u003c\/b\u003eConjunctions to Know and Conjunctions That Blow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e18. R U Uptite?—\u003c\/b\u003eShortcuts in the Digital Age and the Meanies Who Hate Them\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e19. Literally Schmiterally\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e20. How To Drop Out Of High School In The Ninth Grade And Still Make Big Bucks Telling People How To Use Good Grammar—\u003c\/b\u003e\"That\" versus \"Which\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e21. Well, Well, Aren't You Good?—\u003c\/b\u003eAdverbs Love Action\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e22. Fodder For Those Mothers—\u003c\/b\u003e\"Irregardless\" and Other Slipups We Nonsnobs Can't Afford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e23. I Wish I Were Batgirl—\u003c\/b\u003eThe Subjunctive Mood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e24. Mommy's All Wrong, Daddy's All Wrong—\u003c\/b\u003eThe Truth about \"Cans\" and \"Dones\"\u003cbr\u003e[25. The Kids Are All Wrong—\"Alright,\" Dropping \"The\" Before \"the The,\" Where to Put Your \"Only,\" and Other Lessons from the World of Rock 'n' Roll\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e26. How To Impress Brad Pitt—\u003c\/b\u003e\"Affect\" versus \"Effect\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e27. And You Too Can Begin Sentences With \"And,\" \"So,\" \"But,\" And \"Because\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e28. Your Boss Is Not Jesus—\u003c\/b\u003ePossessives and Words Ending in \"S,\" \"X,\" and \"Z\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e29. The Silence Of The Linguists—\u003c\/b\u003eDouble Possessives and Possessives with Gerunds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e30. I'm Writing This While Naked—\u003c\/b\u003eThe Oh-So-Steamy Predicate Nominative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e31. I Wish I May, I Wish I Might For Once In My Life Get This One Right—\u003c\/b\u003e\"May\" versus \"Might,\" \"Different From\" versus \"Different Than,\" \"Between\" versus \"Among,\" and Other Problematic Pairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e32. A Backyard Barbecue In The Back Yard, A Front-Yard Barbecue In The Front Yard—\u003c\/b\u003eThe Magical Moment When Two Words Become One\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e33. How To Never, Ever Offend Anyone With Inadvertently Sexist Or Racist Language\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e34. Complete Sentences? Optional!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e35. It's\/Its A Classroom Ditz—\u003c\/b\u003eOr How I Learned to Stop Fuming and Love the Jerkwad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e36. Eight, Nine, 10, 11—\u003c\/b\u003eHow to Write Numbers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e37. If At First You Don't Irk A Snob, Try And Try Again—\u003c\/b\u003e\"Try To\" versus \"Try And\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e38. Express Lane Of Pain—\u003c\/b\u003e\"Less Than\" versus \"Fewer Than\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e39. Agree To Dis A Meanie—\u003c\/b\u003eSubject-Verb Agreement, Conjugating Verbs for \"None\" and \"Neither,\" and Other Agreement Issues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e40. The Emperor's New Clause—\u003c\/b\u003ePronouns That Are Objects and Subjects, \"Each Other\" versus \"One Another,\" and More Evidence That the \"Experts\" Aren't All They're Cracked Up to Be\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e41. Satan's Vocabulary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e42. You Really Can Look It Up\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eSources\u003c\/b\u003eJune Casagrande writes the popular and very humorous \"A Word, Please\" grammar column for four \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e community newspapers. She has written over 900 articles for various newspapers and magazines and has four years of improvisational comedy training.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300534440165,"sku":"NP9780143036838","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143036838.jpg?v=1767728411","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/grammar-snobs-are-great-big-meanies-isbn-9780143036838","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}