Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies

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. <b>Grammar Snobs 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.<p>Chapters include: </p><ul><li><p>I'm Writing This While Naked--The Oh-So Steamy Predicate Nominative</p></li><li><p>Semicolonoscopy--Colons Semicolons Dashes and Other Probing Annoyances</p></li><li><p>I'll Take I Feel Like a Moron for $200 Alex--When to Put Punctuation Inside Quotation Marks</p></li><li><p>Snobbery Up with Which You Should Not Put Up--Prepositions</p></li><li><p>Is That a Dangler in Your Memo or Are You Just Glad to See Me?</p></li><li><p>Hyphens--Life-Sucking Mom-and-Apple-Pie-Hating Mime-Loving Nerd-Fight-Inciting Daggers of the Damned</p></li></ul><p>Casagrande 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.</p>