The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 10, 1993 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 192 pages
Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of humor. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.
 

Contents

Sentences
3
Words
8
Nouns
30
Verbs
40
Verbals
54
Adjectives and Adverbs
65
Pronouns
77
Agreements
99
Phrases
125
Clauses
140
Fragments Splices and Runons
155
Follow the Flight
167
Illustration Credits
170
Index
172
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KAREN ELIZABETH GORDON is the author of The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, The New Well-Tempered Sentence, The Ravenous Muse, The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales, The Disheveled Dictionary, Paris Out of Hand, Torn Wings and Faux Pas, and Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness. She divides her time between Berkeley, California, and France.

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