When You Catch and Adjective, Kill it .Ben Yagoda
---------------------------------------------------------------
Author: Ben Yagoda
Page Count: 241 pages
Published Date: 28 Jan 2008
Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
Type: Pdf
ISBN: 9780767920780
File Name: When.You.Catch.and.Adjective,.Kill.it.pdf
Download Link: When You Catch and Adjective, Kill it
---------------------------------------------------------------
What do you get when you mix nine parts of speech, one great writer, and generous dashes of insight, humor, and irreverence? One phenomenally entertaining language book.""
In his waggish yet authoritative book, Ben Yagoda has managed to undo the dark work of legions of English teachers and libraries of dusty grammar texts. Not since "School House Rock" have adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs been explored with such infectious exuberance. Read "If You Catch an Adjective, Kill It "and: "
"
Learn how to write better with classic advice from writers such as Mark Twain ("If you catch an adjective, kill it"), Stephen King ("I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs"), and Gertrude Stein ("Nouns . . . are completely not interesting").
Marvel at how a single word can shift from adverb ("I did okay"), to adjective ("It was an okay movie"), to interjection ("Okay!"), to noun ("I gave my okay"), to verb ("Who okayed this?"), depending on its use.
Avoid the pretentious preposition "at," a favorite of real estate developers (e.g., "The Shoppes at White Plains").
Laugh when Yagoda says he "shall call anyone a dork to the end of his days" who insists on maintaining the distinction between "shall" and "will."
Read, and discover a book whose pop culture references, humorous asides, and bracing doses of discernment and common sense""convey Yagoda's unique sense of the "beauty, the joy, the artistry, and the fun of language."
Read online When You Catch and Adjective, Kill it
Buy and read online When You Catch and Adjective, Kill it
Download When You Catch and Adjective, Kill it for pc, mac, kindle, readers
Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook When You Catch and Adjective, Kill it
Links:
Ready, Set, Grow! : A "What's Happening to My Body?" Book for Younger Girls epub
London : A Social History downloadPDF, EPUB, MOBI
remote key finder smartfinder instructions on how to play
titan quest immortal throne patch 1.3 download youtube
Russian Dolls Coloring Book for Grown-Ups 1 download
Write Me a Few of Your Lines : A Blues Reader pdf
When Buddhists Attack : The Curious Relationship Between Zen and the Martial Arts book
