The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the DoomedPlayful 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. |
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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the ... Karen Elizabeth Gordon No preview available - 1993 |
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the ... Karen Elizabeth Gordon No preview available - 1993 |
Common terms and phrases
Adjective clauses adjectives and adverbs Adverbs Modifying Alyosha antecedent appositive arrive baba baby vampire beast behave collective nouns comma compound Copyright cracked crawdads dance debutante direct object door Dover Publications Effie expletive eyes faun floorboards twenty nights Fragment Gabor gargoyles gerund girl grammar hand Harpo Marx independent clause infinitive keeps lamia lamia put linking verb little maestro look Loona lycanthropes marzipan mastodons meaning ménage à trois moped name is Jean-Pierre Nonrestrictive noun or pronoun nuzzle flagpoles nymph object of preposition ogling stevedores paced the floorboards participial phrase Past Participle paths she longs pelts plotted their tryst plural verb predicate prepositional phrases Procrustean put the frog rats relative pronoun road to perdition robot Run-ons samovar schloss sentence shoes singular or plural singular verb Sir Gallimauf Splice subjective complement subordinate conjunction take singular tence thing Timofey Torquil and Jonquil Transitive Vampire troll Verbals werewolf whoever wildebeest words