Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English - Hardcover

O'Conner, Patricia T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399141960 ISBN 13: 9780399141966

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1996

Synopsis

Her commonsense approach is as entertaining as it is instructive. O'Conner has written a nifty guidebook to modern grammar that affectionately elbows the reader on every page.

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Review:

Written by Patricia T. O'Conner, an editor at the New York Times Book Review, Woe Is I gives lighthearted, witty instruction on the subject most of us dreaded in school--grammar. Discussion is brief and concise, and much more engaging than the grammar books you may remember. With chapter titles such as "Woe is I: Therapy for Pronoun Anxiety," "Your Truly: The Possessive and the Possessed," "Verbal Abuse: Words on the Endangered List," "Comma Sutra; The Joy of Punctuation," and "Death Sentence: Do Cliches Deserve to Die?," O'Conner proves that even grammar can make for entertaining reading.

About the Author:

Patricia T. O'Conner is a senior copy editor at The New York Times Book Review who has written guest columns for William Safire. She has also conducted a grammar course for Times employees.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0399141960
• ISBN 13: 9780399141966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240