The Giggly Guide to Grammar: Serious Grammar with a Sense of Humor

Campbell, Cathy

ISBN 10: 1931492220 / ISBN 13: 9781931492225

Published by Discover Writing Press, 2023

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G1931492220I4N00

Synopsis:

It's Shel Silverstein meets Strunk and White and the results are both hilarious and instructive. With over 120 illustrations and gobs of delightfully goofy examples and exercises, this book provides a lighthearted and ludicrous guide to the essential elements of language and grammar...not to mention a few writing tips thrown into the mix.

Grammar has often been taught as joyless process of memorizing rules and diagramming phony sentences, but most writers will tell you that grammar actually promotes a love of language. Not only can the study of grammar be fun and joyful, this unique primer can also be used by adults everywhere who simply need a single volume at the ready to keep them on the straight and narrow...and laughing all the way!


5.0 out of 5 stars Giggly Grammar
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 22, 2011
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HaHaHaHaHaHa. I laughed all the way through The Giggly Guide to Grammar. This grammar book has it all. Hilarious line drawings dramatize principles of grammar (hairy monkeys, aardvarks with buck teeth, Milk-Duds-eating squirrels, straggly three-headed cats, and more). Loony bin characters meander through the pages (Aunt Zippy with her frizzy hair; sweet little Domenica who raises earthworms; Matilda in her colorful, eye-catching shower cap that hide her trussed-up tresses; and others too numerous to mention).
Cathy Campbell uses funny-sounding words to add to the humor: flimflammer, gazillion, varmints, dreadlocks, pizzazz, hypnosis, zucchini, and pachyderms. She includes lots of buffoonery that teens will love (hairy armpits, underwear, squirming tapeworms being digested in the intestines, taco salad caught in braces, parrots gagging on feather balls, and on and on, almost ad infinitum. Invented names, invented words, and invented situations stand out on each page.
Oh, and did I mention that this book does an excellent job on teaching grammar? It does. Campbell includes the easy stuff, you know, nouns, verbs, adjectives. But she also tackles the hard stuff: pronoun predicaments, principle parts of speech, independent and dependent clauses, essential and nonessential clauses (a.k.a. restrictrive and nonrestrictive).
The Giggly Guide to Grammar gives what it promises: a good time while learning about grammar. Students will love this book. Adults will love it, too.

About the Author: Ms. Campbell grew up in Midland, Texas and received a degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin. After a short stint working for an ad agency, she moved to The Woodlands, Texas, where she has been delighting her high school students with her hilarious, illustrated grammar lessons. The Giggly Guide to Grammar is her first book.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Giggly Guide to Grammar: Serious Grammar...
Publisher: Discover Writing Press
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: Paperback
Illustrator: Cathy Campbell
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket