Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #214368 in Books
• Published on: 1993-08-31
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Synopsis
This guide to the rules of grammar presents amusing instructional sentences to demonstrate correct usage and is illustrated with old engravings.

Customer Reviews

For those who already know what they are doing.....
I bought this book by recomendation from a close friend who is also a published author, so I thought it was worth a shot. Even though I'm sure the book is using lay mens terms I am none the wiser about grammer after reading it (several times). This is because my grammer and punctuation are truly appauling and I was going into this book with no real knowledge of grammer. I also find the book hard to read because of it's lack of summary's and quiz's, sometimes I thought I was just nodding along for the sake of just finishing the book. In my opinion you really do need to a reasonable amount of grammer to read this book.

For those who are looking for a simple and workable layout I reccomend 'Basic grammer' and 'Basic punctuation' by John Murray.

The quintessential grammar-really-can-be-fun read.
At age 54, starting to write for the first time, it seemed only natural to scour the shelves of my local purveyor of books for helpful references. Both the cover and the title of this book fairly leapt into my visual field, making it impossible to leave the vampire--or his debutante--on the shelf. Not only did it clearly answer my rather pedestrian questions about the various parts of speech, etc., it did so with gusto, elan, humor, and very clever self-defining plays on words. More importantly, Ms. Gordon's characters brought home to me WHY these various grammatical entities were essential, showing me ways to convey intent, innuendo, shadings of meaning, and so forth that have been immensely helpful.

I recommend this book to writers, writers-manque, lovers of both the English language as well as linguistics in general. Not to be missed.

Scrumptious
I have long held the notion that grammar really isn't as bad as it's cracked up to be. Ms Gordon not only proves my theory, but her darkly entertaining illustrations and sentences serve as the sugar that helps the proverbial medicine go down. Her information is accurate, her teaching style is swift and fun, and you'll walk away from this book with a smile on your face, a few auxiliary verbs in your pocket, and an overwhelming urge to buy a samovar. Run -- don't walk -- to your wallet and fetch your credit card right now. . .