Good Grammar is the Life of the Party
Tips for a Wildly Successful Life
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Publisher Description
"Those who can't be bothered with another dry grammar guide owe it to themselves to give this a look."
-Publishers Weekly
Grammar rules!
Good Grammar is the Life of the Party: Tips for a Wildly Successful Life will convert certified grammar goofballs into bonafide word nerds.
As the writer of the award-winning humor column "Grammar Guy," Curtis Honeycutt's grammar advice appears in over 40 newspapers each week. His debut book-filled with witty word wisdom-is designed to make your life more awesome by improving your grammar.
Do you love language, but sometimes get tripped up by confusing grammar rules? Good Grammar is the Life of the Party is like a cheat code for your social life. Level up your grammar game to become a linguistic legend-from romantic relationships to job promotions to getting invited to fancy roof parties. Climb the corporate ladder, convince people you're smart, and win at life with dozens of helpful tips on how to master the English language.
Grammar aficionados and beginners alike will love this fresh, friendly approach to tackling American English grammar and punctuation rules. This book answers some of life's most pressing questions, including:
How can I make myself irresistible to attractive people?What's a moot?Why don't people like me?How can I increase my holiday card list to over 1,000 friends?Is irregardless even a word?Where can I find the best box of wine?Can I...or, may I...end a sentence in a preposition?Are robot overlords ruining our grammar?What are the chances I'll get killed by a falling coconut?
GGITLOTP offers accessible mini-essays that provide a quirky spin on proper grammar usage along with tips for achieving massive personal success.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Honeycutt, author of the syndicated Grammar Guy column, pairs grammar lessons with self-help tips in this amusing guide. He dispels common grammatical pitfalls—when an apostrophe is apt, the use of hyphens when writing about age, how to use who and whom—and makes lessons memorable through quirky anecdotes and whimsical suggestions, such as directions on how to obtain one's own private island. (He suggests planting a flag on any island you'd like to have and referring to "article 19 of the Magna Carta.") His Captain Hook joke will lay to rest when to use bad versus badly: "Would Captain Hook make a good masseuse? No, because Captain Hook feels badly. And he probably feels pretty bad about that." In a chapter on using proper grammar to succeed at business, Honeycutt suggests using power verbs and speaking in active voice. Elsewhere, fictional characters serve as grammarians, such as Batman and Robin's opinion of bad usage like irregardless and "worst words" like diphthong, and goiter. While Honeycutt's life advice ends up being less than practical ("invent your own jargon" and "get promoted"), his memorable grammar examples will help readers be better prepared to speak and write confidently. Those who can't be bothered with another dry grammar guide owe it to themselves to give this a look. (Self-published)
