Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian - Brossura

Jovin, Ellen

 
9780063433878: Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
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ISBN 10: 0063433877 ISBN 13: 9780063433878
Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2025

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"A fresh and democratic take on language by a gifted teacher." —Mary Norris

"[Jovin] never hectors, never finger-points; she enlightens and illuminates. This is lovely work." —Benjamin Dreyer

An unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian.

When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a GRAMMAR TABLE sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Grammar Table was such a hit—attracting the attention of the New York Times, NPR, and CBS Evening News—that Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from writers, lawyers, editors, businesspeople, students, bickering couples, and anyone else who uses words in this world.

In Rebel with a Clause, Jovin tackles what is most on people’s minds, grammatically speaking—from the Oxford comma to the places prepositions can go, the likely lifespan of whom, semicolonphobia, and more.

Punctuated with linguistic debates from tiny towns to our largest cities, this grammar romp will delight anyone wishing to polish their prose or revel in our age-old, universal fascination with language.

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Informazioni sull?autore

ELLEN JOVIN is a founder of Syntaxis, a communication skills training consultancy. She holds degrees from Harvard in German and UCLA in comparative literature, and has studied twenty-five languages just for fun. She lives with her husband in New York City.

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Editore
Mariner Books
Data di pubblicazione
2025
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0063433877
ISBN 13 
9780063433878
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
400
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
HarperCollins Publishers Ireland
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9780358278153: Rebel With A Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian

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ISBN 10:  0358278155 ISBN 13:  9780358278153
Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2022
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