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9780679418603

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780679418603

  • ISBN10:

    0679418601

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1993-08-10
  • Publisher: Pantheon

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix(4)
Preface xiii(2)
Introduction xv
Sentences
3(5)
Words
8(22)
Nouns
30(10)
Verbs
40(14)
Verbals
54(11)
Adjectives and Adverbs
65(12)
Pronouns
77(22)
Agreements
99(26)
Phrases
125(15)
Clauses
140(15)
Fragments, Splices, and Run-ons
155(12)
Follow the Flight 167(3)
Illustration Credits 170(2)
Index 172

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