Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies:
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When and if I buy and ultimately read “Grammar Snobs Are
Great Big Meanies,” what will I learn?
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Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies
Table of Contents
Introduction:
Grammar Snobs Make Good Prison Brides
1.
A
Snob for All Seasons – Shared
Possessives
2.
For
Whom the Snob Trolls – “Who”/”Whom” and Why You’re Right Not to Care
3.
Passing
The Simpsons Test – It’s Till, Not ‘Til
4.
To
Boldly Blow – Only Windbags Fuss Over Split Infinitives
5.
The
Sexy Mistake – “To Lay” Versus “To Lie”
6.
Snobbery
Up With Which You Should Not Put – Prepositions
7.
Is
That a Dangler in Your Memo or Are You Just Glad to See Me?
8.
An
Open Letter to Someone Who Knows I Once Tried to Be a Grammar Snob But Failed –
“Dreamed” Versus “Dreamt,” “Preventive” Versus “Preventative,” and Similar
Pairs
9.
Anarchy
Rules – “Advisor”/“Advisor,” “Titled”/“Entitled,” and Other Ways Grammar Snobs
Have Set You Up to Be Right and Wrong at the Same Time
10.
The
Comma Denominator – Good News: No One Knows How to Use These Things
11.
Semicolonoscopy – Colons, Semicolons, Dashes, Hyphens, and Other Probing
Annoyances
12.
The
O.C.: Where the ‘80s Never Die – Lessons on the Apostrophe From Behind the
13.
Go
Ahead, Make Up Your Own Words – Prefixes and Suffixes and Why the Dictionary
Thinks You’re Wrong
14.
Hyphens:
Life-Sucking, Mom-and-Apple-Pie-Hating, Mime-Loving, Nerd-Fight-Inciting Daggers
of the Damned
15.
I’ll
Take “I Feel Like a Moron” for $200, Alex – When to Put Punctuation Inside
Quotation Marks
16.
A
Chapter Dedicated to Those Other Delights of Punctuation
17.
Copulative
Conjunctions: Hot Stuff for the Truly Desperate – Conjunctions to Know and
Conjunctions that Blow
18.
R
U Uptite? – Shortcuts in the Digital Age and the Meanies Who Hate Them
19.
Literally
Schmiterally
20.
How
to Drop Out of High School in the Ninth Grade and Still Make Big Bucks Telling
People How to Use Good Grammar – “That” Versus “Which”
21.
Well,
Well, Aren’t You Good? – Adverbs Love Action
22.
Fodder
for Those Mothers – “Irregardless” and Other Slip-ups We Nonsnobs
Can’t Afford
23.
I
Wish I Were Batgirl – The Subjunctive Mood
24.
Mommy’s
All Wrong, Daddy’s All Wrong – The Truth About “Cans” and “Dones”
25.
The
Kids Are All Wrong – “Alright,” Dropping “The” Before “The The,”
Where to Put Your “Only” and Other Lessons From the World of Rock ‘n’ Roll
26.
How
to Impress Brad Pitt – “Affect” Versus “Effect”
27.
And
You Too Can Begin Sentences With “And,” “So,” “But,” and “Because”
28.
Your
Boss is Not Jesus – Possessives of Words Ending in “S,” “X,” and “Z”
29.
The
Silence of the Linguists – Double Possessives and Possessives With Gerunds
30.
I’m
Writing This While Naked – The Oh-So-Steamy Predicate Nominative
31.
I
Wish I May, I Wish I Might for Once in My Life Get This One Right – “May”
Versus “Might,” “Different From” Versus “Different Than,” “Between” Versus
“Among” and Other Problematic Pairs
32.
A
Backyard Barbecue in the Back Yard, A Front-Yard Barbecue in the Front Yard –
The Magical Moment When Two Words Become One
33.
How
to Never, Ever Offend Anyone With Inadvertently Sexist or Racist Language
34.
Complete
Sentences? Optional!
35.
It’s/Its
A Classroom Ditz (Or How I Learned to Stop Fuming and Love the Jerkwad)
36.
Eight,
Nine, 10, 11 – How to Write Numbers
37.
If
at First You Don’t Irk a Snob, Try and Try Again – “Try To” Versus “Try And”
38.
Express
Lane of Pain – “Less Than” Versus “Fewer Than”
39.
Agree
to ‘Dis a Meanie –
Subject-Verb Agreement, Conjugating Verbs for “None” and “Neither,” and Other
Agreement Issues
40.
The
Emperor’s New Clause – Pronouns That Are Objects and Subjects, “Each Other”
Versus “One Another,” and More Evidence That the “Experts” Aren’t All They’re
Cracked Up to Be
41.
Satan’s
Vocabulary
42.
You
Really Can Look It Up
