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Grammar snobs are great big meanies
a guide to language for fun and spite
By Casagrande, June
- ISBN
- 978-0-14303-683-8
- Publisher
- New York : Penguin Books, 2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 27, 2006
Hoping to make grammar both accessible and amusing, Casagrande offers practical and entertaining lessons on common uses and unfortunate abuses of the English language. The author, a southern California newspaper columnist, memorably delineates "who" and "whom"; "can" and "may"; "affect" and "effect"; and provides pithy primers on the perennially problematic dark alleys of language (subjunctives, how to use punctu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
