When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse
Language: English
Published by Broadway Books, 2007
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- Title
- When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse
- Author
- Yagoda, Ben
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0767920775
- ISBN 13
- 9780767920773
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 sinceSchool House Rock have adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs been explored with such infectious exuberance. ReadIf 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 betweenshall and will.
Read, and discover a book whose pop culture references, humorous asides, and bracing doses of discernment and common senseconvey Yagodas unique sense of the beauty, the joy, the artistry, and the fun of language.
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About the Author
BEN YAGODA teaches English at the University of Delaware, and is the author of four books, includingThe Sound on the Page and About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made. He has contributed toSlate.com, the New York Times Book Review, the American Scholar, Rolling Stone andEsquire, and writes an occasional column on language for the Chronicle of Higher Education. He lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
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