{"product_id":"9780143036838","title":"Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat do suicidal pandas, doped-up rock stars, and a naked Pamela Anderson have in common? They’re all a heck of a lot more interesting than reading about predicate nominatives and hyphens. June Casagrande knows this and has invented a whole new twist on the grammar book. \u003cb\u003eGrammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies\u003c\/b\u003e is a laugh-out-loud funny collection of anecdotes and essays on grammar and punctuation, as well as hilarious critiques of the self-appointed language experts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapters include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI’m Writing This While Naked—The Oh-So Steamy Predicate Nominative\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSemicolonoscopy—Colons, Semicolons, Dashes, and Other Probing Annoyances\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI’ll Take \"I Feel Like a Moron\" for $200, Alex—When to Put Punctuation Inside Quotation Marks\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSnobbery Up with Which You Should Not Put Up—Prepositions\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIs That a Dangler in Your Memo or Are You Just Glad to See Me?\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHyphens—Life-Sucking, Mom-and-Apple-Pie-Hating, Mime-Loving, Nerd-Fight-Inciting Daggers of the Damned\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eCasagrande delivers practical and fun language lessons not found anywhere else, demystifying the subject and taking it back from the snobs. In short, it’s a grammar book people will actually want to read—just for the fun of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008587448560,"sku":"9780143036838","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143036838_p0.jpg?v=1763656468","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143036838","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}