Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English
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A witty and therefore easy-to-read look at the rules of grammar. This is truly a fun book to read, which is pretty astounding, given its subject. Garrison Keillor This is, like, a cool book...
Preface to the Second EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Woe Is I: Therapy for Pronoun Anxiety 12 Plurals Before Swine: Blunders with Numbers 193 Yours Truly: The Possessives and the Possessed 374 They Beg to Disagree: Putting Verbs in Their Place 495 Verbal Abuse: Words on the Endangered List 816 Comma Sutra: The Joy of Punctuation 1337 The Compleat Dangler: A Fish out of Water 1598 Death Sentence: Do Cliches Deserve to Die? 1679 The Living Dead: Let Bygone Rules Be Gone 18110 Saying Is Believing: How to Write What You Mean 19511 E-Mail Intuition: Does Anything Go? 205Glossary 219Bibliography 231Index 233
