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Amazon.com Review An Amazon Best Book of April 2015: Once upon a time, a couple or few decades ago, most American boys and girls in grade school were taught grammar and punctuation; we learned, for example, that “i” came before “e,” except after “c” (except sometimes, but never mind) and that the verb “to be” was “like an equal sign,” which meant that you used the nominative case (have I lost you yet) on both sides of it. (“It is I,” in other words, is the correct, if dowdy, response to “Who’s there”) Some of us were even taught to diagram sentences; some had parents who corrected us at the family dinner table. (I can still hear my father pressing the subjunctive upon me. “If I WERE,” he’d bellow, when I allowed as how there’d be later curfews if I “was” in charge.) Whether they retained the lessons or not, most people probably don't wax romantic about the grammar lessons or teachers of yore. Which is why even those of you who don’t have the soul of a second-grade grammar teacher will love Between You and Me, the hilarious and delightful “memoir” by the longtime New Yorker copy editor, Mary Norris, who confides in the subtitle that she is a “comma queen.” (The above is not a full sentence, I know -- but I think I can get away with it by calling it "my style." Also, I put quotation marks around the word “memoir,” Mary – I know you’re wondering -- because I was trying to make the point that your book is an unusual take on the form, dealing as it does with thats and whiches as well as with your Ohio adolescence as a foot-checker at the local pool.) Who knew grammar could be so much fun -- that silly marks of punctuation could be so wickedly anthropomorphized (a question mark is like a lazy person), that dashes grow in families (there are big dashes and little dashes and they can all live peaceably within one sentence), that there was once a serious movement to solve the he-or-she problem with the catchall “heesh” Clearly, Norris knows: her book is plenty smart, but it’s its (one’s a contraction, one’s a possessive) joyful, generous style that makes it so winning. This is a celebration of language that won’t make anyone feel dumb – but it’s also the perfect gift for the coworker you haven’t been able to tell that “between” is a preposition that never, ever, takes an object that includes the pronoun “I.” – Sara Nelson 23hrs dead: She saw Famous People in Hell: Michael Jackson ... Your story i read about you being in heaven with God was really amazing God told your or he reveal to you that jackson and pope is in hell. Well why did God show you ... Essay Writing Service - EssayErudite.com Custom Writing ... We provide excellent essay writing service 24/7. Enjoy proficient essay writing and custom writing services provided by professional academic writers. NECO Inc . - 3D Engineering Technology Prototyping 3D CAD Services Streamline Design Process. Neco Inc. of Denver Colorado provides 3D Computer Aided Design and support services primarily allied to the ... East Brunswick Public Library EBPL Home Page EBPL Launches New Job Search and Career Navigation Service. East Brunswick Public Library now offers local residents access to New Jersey Career Connections a new ... Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult & Samantha van Leer Following the success of Between the Lines Jodi Picoult and her daughter and co-writer Samantha van Leer have teamed up for their second young-adult (YA) novel ... T. D. Jakes & Black Christian Leaders Join the Left in ... (ThyBlackMan.com) It pains me to say this but it was truly disappointing seeing Bishop T. D. Jakes on MSNBC helping to further the Lefts lie that the ... Serial comma - Wikipedia In English language punctuation a serial comma or series comma (also called Oxford comma and Harvard comma) is a comma placed immediately before the coordinating ... The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen As a copy editor for the New Yorker Mary Norris enforces some of the most authoritative (some might say eccentric) style rules in publishing. BibMe: Free Bibliography & Citation Maker - MLA APA ... Using other peoples research or ideas without giving them due credit is plagiarism. Since BibMe makes it easy to create citations build bibliographies and ... Literary Terms and Definitions D - Carson-Newman College Huck: "I'll take the canoe and go see Jim. It mightn't be you know." Other famous uses of dialect ...
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