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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Jovin, Ellen, author.     Subjects     Jovin, Ellen -- Travel -- United States -- Anecdotes.     English language -- Grammar.     English language -- Errors of usage.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jovin, Ellen, author.       by title:      Rebel with a clause ...         MARC Display

Rebel with a clause : tales and tips from a roving grammarian / Ellen Jovin. by Jovin, Ellen, author. Boston ; New York : Mariner Books, [2022] Subjects Jovin, Ellen -- Travel -- United States -- Anecdotes.   English language -- Grammar.   English language -- Errors of usage. ISBN:  9780358278153 (hardcover) : 0358278155 (hardcover) Description:  xx, 374 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Grammar table road trips -- Introduction: A table unfolded -- 1. A national obsession : the Oxford comma -- 2. The joy of grammar vocabulary -- 3. "Affect" and "effect" are mean spelling trolls -- 4. Corrections, humility, and etiquette -- 5. Adverbial antics -- 6. How are you? -- 7. Bookzuberance -- 8. Going farther and further -- 9. Texting grammar -- 10. Sentimental speller -- 11. Please____ (lie, lay) down and read this -- 12. The life, times, and punctuation of the appositive -- 13. Weird plurals : your data ____ (is/are) giving me a headache -- 14. Yes, ma'am! -- 15. Accents keep things fresh -- 16. The great American spacing war -- 17. cAPiTaLizAtiON CHAoS -- 18. Contract with confidence! -- 19. The pleasure of pronunciation -- 20. I saw____ (a, an) UFO on Main Street -- 21. Compound sentences -- 22. Semicolonphobia! -- 23. Labyrinthine lists -- 24. Colonoscopy -- 25. Comma volume -- 26. You can read this chapter in five minutes or fewer -- 27. Possessed by apostrophes -- 28. Plural possessive holiday extravaganza -- 29. Peculiar pasts -- 30. Peripatetic past participles -- 31. What's passed is past -- 32. Gerund v. present-participle smackdown -- 33. Horizontal-line lessons--hyphens and dashes, A-Z -- 34. Good fun with bad words -- 35. ... -- 36. Where's that preposition at? -- 37. Faces and facets of "they" -- 38. The precarious case of the pronoun case -- 39. Whom ya gonna call? -- 40. Bewitching whiches -- 41. Punctuation location contemplation -- 42. Subject-verb synchronicity -- 43. More than then -- 44. It's time for "its"! -- 45. More homophonous happenings : 'your" and 'their" -- 46. Had had, that that, do do, do be do! -- 47. The art of writing with your actual hand -- 48. School days -- 49. Grammar boogie -- Tabletop bibliography : what's on the grammar table? Requests:  0 Summary:  "An unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 428.2 Jo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 428.2 Jovin Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 428.2 Jo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 428.2 Jo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 428.2 Jo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 428.2 Jo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 428.2 Jo Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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