Between You & Me - Confessions of a Comma .

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. Once upon a time, a couple or few decades ago, most American boys and girl s in grade school were taught grammar and punctuation; we learned, for exam ple, that "i" came before "e," except after "c" (except sometimes, but neve r mind) and that the verb "to be" was "like an equal sign," which meant tha t 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 th ere") Some of us were even taught to diagram sentences; some had parents w ho corrected us at the family dinner table. (I can still hear my father pre ssing 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 t he lessons or not, most people probably don't wax romantic about the gramma r 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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0393240185

ISBN-13: 9780393240184

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Year: 2015

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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