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. Daniel Pinkwater Lighthearted and funny...It's like Strunk and White combined with S.J. Perelman. —The New York Times Book Review
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
