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The Grammarian / by Potluri, Annapurna,1979-(CARDINAL)402295;
Subjects: Fiction.; Philologists; Families; Self-realization; French;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The grammarians / by Schine, Cathleen,author.(CARDINAL)730573;
Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins, share an obsession with words. As adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation begins to push them apart. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Twins; Sisters; Grammarians; Women journalists; Women poets;
Available copies: 25 / Total copies: 30
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The grammarians [large print] / by Schine, Cathleen,author.(CARDINAL)730573;
The grammarians are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical and inseparable twins who share an obsession with words. They spoke a secret "twin" tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults, their verbal infatuation, which has always bound them together, begins to push them apart. Daphne, a grammar columnist, devotes herself to preserving the dignity and elegance of Standard English. Laurel, a poet, is drawn instead to the polymorphous nature of the written and spoken word. Their twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war over the custody of their prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition.
Subjects: Fiction.; Large print books.; Twins; Sisters; Grammarians; Women journalists; Women poets; Families; Distribution of decedents' estates;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 9
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The grouchy grammarian : a how-not-to guide to the 47 most common mistakes by journalists, broadcasters, and others who should know better / by Parrish, Thomas(Thomas D.)(CARDINAL)181633;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-180) and index.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; English language;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the Underground grammarian / by Mitchell, Richard,1929-2002.(CARDINAL)309397;
Subjects: English language; Language and languages.; Language arts;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Rebel with a clause : tales and tips from a roving grammarian / by Jovin, Ellen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-363) and index.Grammar table road trips -- Introduction: A table unfolded -- 1. A national obsession : the Oxford comma -- 2. The joy of grammar vocabulary -- 3. "Affect" and "effect" are mean spelling trolls -- 4. Corrections, humility, and etiquette -- 5. Adverbial antics -- 6. How are you? -- 7. Bookzuberance -- 8. Going farther and further -- 9. Texting grammar -- 10. Sentimental speller -- 11. Please____ (lie, lay) down and read this -- 12. The life, times, and punctuation of the appositive -- 13. Weird plurals : your data ____ (is/are) giving me a headache -- 14. Yes, ma'am! -- 15. Accents keep things fresh -- 16. The great American spacing war -- 17. cAPiTaLizAtiON CHAoS -- 18. Contract with confidence! -- 19. The pleasure of pronunciation -- 20. I saw____ (a, an) UFO on Main Street -- 21. Compound sentences -- 22. Semicolonphobia! -- 23. Labyrinthine lists -- 24. Colonoscopy -- 25. Comma volume -- 26. You can read this chapter in five minutes or fewer -- 27. Possessed by apostrophes -- 28. Plural possessive holiday extravaganza -- 29. Peculiar pasts -- 30. Peripatetic past participles -- 31. What's passed is past -- 32. Gerund v. present-participle smackdown -- 33. Horizontal-line lessons--hyphens and dashes, A-Z -- 34. Good fun with bad words -- 35. ... -- 36. Where's that preposition at? -- 37. Faces and facets of "they" -- 38. The precarious case of the pronoun case -- 39. Whom ya gonna call? -- 40. Bewitching whiches -- 41. Punctuation location contemplation -- 42. Subject-verb synchronicity -- 43. More than then -- 44. It's time for "its"! -- 45. More homophonous happenings : 'your" and 'their" -- 46. Had had, that that, do do, do be do! -- 47. The art of writing with your actual hand -- 48. School days -- 49. Grammar boogie -- Tabletop bibliography : what's on the grammar table?"When 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. Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from anyone who uses words in this world. Here she 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." --
Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Anecdotes.; Travel writing.; Jovin, Ellen; English language; English language; English language;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 17
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The rules of love & grammar [large print] / by Simses, Mary,author.(CARDINAL)401552;
A grammar whiz who's brilliant at correcting other people's errors, Grace Hammond is newly jobless, and hasn't found the right set of rules for fixing her own mistakes. She retreats to her Connecticut hometown, and comes to terms, finally, with the tragedy that took her older sister's life so many years ago. As she rekindles a romance with Peter, her high school sweetheart she also finds sparks flying with schoolteacher Mitch. Now Grace whether it's time for her to throw away the rule book and bravely follow her heart.
Subjects: Large print books.; Fiction.; Self-realization in women; Man-woman relationships; Grammarians; First loves; Teachers;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The rules of love & grammar : a novel / by Simses, Mary.(CARDINAL)401552;
Newly jobless, newly single, and suddenly apartmentless, writer Grace Hammond has come unmoored. A grammar whiz who's brilliant at correcting other people's errors, she hasn't yet found quite the right set of rules for fixing her own mistakes. Desperate to escape the city and her trifecta of problems, Grace hits pause and retreats to her Connecticut hometown. What begins as a short visit with her parents quickly becomes a far more meaningful stay, though, as she discovers that the answers to what her future holds might be found by making peace with--and even embracing--the past. As Grace sets out to change her ways and come to terms, finally, with the tragedy that took her older sister's life so many years ago, she rekindles a romance with her high school sweetheart, Peter, now a famous Hollywood director who's filming a movie in town. Sparks also fly at the local bike shop, where Grace's penchant for pointing out what's wrong rattles the owner's ruggedly handsome schoolteacher son, Mitch. Torn between the promise of a glamorous life and the allure of the familiar, Grace must decide what truly matters--and whether it's time for her to throw away the rule book and bravely follow her heart. --
Subjects: Fiction.; Self-realization in women; Man-woman relationships; Grammarians; First loves; Teachers;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 18
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I yam a donkey! / by Bell, Cece,author,illustrator.(CARDINAL)343114;
Confusion abounds when a poorly spoken donkey says to a grammarian yam, "I Yam a Donkey!"370L
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Picture books.; Donkeys; English language; Yams;
Available copies: 77 / Total copies: 93
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The dictionary of disagreeable English : a curmudgeon's compendium of excruciatingly correct grammar / by Fiske, Robert Hartwell.(CARDINAL)781538;
Subjects: Dictionaries.; English language; English language;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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