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

Author: Karen Elizabeth Gordon Year: 1984 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Paranormal, Humor, Education Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780679418603 0679418601

Playful, practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit & black humor. Black-&-white illustrations throughout. Introduction Sentences & what we mean by them Words & what kinds of words they are Nouns Verbs Verbals More on verbs Adjectives & adverbs Pronouns Arriving at agreements Phrases Clauses Fragments Comma splices The creation of sentences Similar books: Woe is I by Patricia T. O'Conner The Transitive Vampire by Karen Elizabeth Gordon The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need by Susan Thurman Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog by Kitty Burns Florey Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies by June Casagrande Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing by Mignon Fogarty The Glamour of Grammar by Roy Peter Clark The Elements of Grammar by Margaret Shertzer Common Errors in English Usage by Paul Brians The Grammar Devotional by Mignon Fogarty Mortal Syntax by June Casagrande The Handbook of Good English by Edward D. Johnson The Grouchy Grammarian by Thomas Parrish Lapsing into a Comma by Bill Walsh Grammar Girl Presents the Ultimate Writing Guide for Students by Mignon Fogarty F for Effort! by Richard Benson Paris Out of Hand by Karen Elizabeth Gordon Miss Manners' guide to excruciatingly correct behavior by Judith Martin The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind by Phillip Done