When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It
By Ben Yagoda
By Ben Yagoda
By Ben Yagoda
By Ben Yagoda
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$20.00
Dec 26, 2007 | ISBN 9780767920780
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Feb 12, 2008 | ISBN 9780767929318
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Praise
Advance praise for If You Catch an Adjective, Kill It:
“Absolutely required—and utterly fun—reading for anyone who cares about the work-in-progress that is the English language. Marvelous in every way.” —Christopher Buckley
“All hail to Ben Yagoda! Not only has he publicly rescued mother from the ubiquitous debasement of mom, and consigned shall to the schoolmarm’s dead-rules inferno, but—ebulliently—he dresses Fowler, his eminent usage-predecessor, in relaxed American shoes. Yagoda’s invigorating interrogation of our language will excite every syntax-obsessed reader and writer. (And there are more of us than you might think.)”
—Cynthia Ozick
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