Legal Writing

You could win a bet with this book

Grammar-usage books make it to my desk often. I rarely write about them because they are irritating to read and use or just don't have anything new to offer. A new book is out that I like. It's "Mortal Syntax" by June Casagrande, who writes a newspaper column called "A Word, Please." This is her second book; her first had the funny title "Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies."

"Mortal Syntax" (Penguin Paperback Originals, $14) has the subtitle "101 Language Choices That Will Get You Clobbered by the Grammar Snobs - Even If You Are Right." And that's exactly what you get with "Mortal Syntax." Casagrande goes through 101 of the most disputed grammar-usage issues such as fun as an adjective, "for free," whom and "one of the only." In other words, she writes about the very issues that I hear from readers about.

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Full post as published by Triangle Grammar Guide on March 26, 2008 (boomark / email).