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June Casagrande
Author of "Mortal Syntax" and "Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies"

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PUBLISHED: Mar.25.2008

Mortal Syntax: 101 Language Choices That Will Get You Clobbered by the Grammar Snobs -- Even If You're Right

I take the 101 most-picked-on grammar and usage choices and look them up in 14 different reference works. The results are surprising, and when they're not, I pad them with stories about pudding shakers and my childhood petition drive to support "Planet of the Apes."

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2006

Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies

Grammar for people who'd rather be watching Beavis & Butthead.

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PUBLISHED: Jul.27.2010

It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences

Your story may be brilliant. Your insights may be groundbreaking. Your characters may be so real you can almost touch them. But they're not worth a thing if you can't bring them to life in well-written sentences. It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences is the first book to make the mechanics of the sentence meaningful to writers. Chapters include: A...

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June's Latest Blogs

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Aug.25.2010 - 10:53 am

Breaking Up (Sentences) Is Not Hard to Do

Yesterday I showed a writer friend this passage* from an article I was copy editing about a young couple's courtship: Supporting each other through their education and in their...

Aug.19.2010 - 8:49 am

Changes to the Chicago Manual: Bad News for All You Xerxes Bloggers and Euripides Reporters

The Chicago Manual of Style's new 16th edition is out, complete with updated style rules for book publishers and anyone else who follows this style. Some major style changes are...

Jul.28.2010 - 7:38 am

Only an ultracrepidarian mumpsimus would mind my announcing that my new book is out!

Bryan Garner, author of "Garner's Modern American Usage" tweeted this morning about two really fun words I thought I'd pass along: "Two of my favorite words...

Jul.23.2010 - 10:10 am

More Parsing Larsson: Querying the Great Beyond

Below is the first page of Stieg Larsson's "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest." Below that is the same page with the copyedits and queries I would have made had it...

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Jul.28.2010 - 10:31 am

In response to: Only an ultracrepidarian mumpsimus would mind my announcing that my new book is out!

What a great movie line

I love that. And thanks for the congrats! - J

Jul.23.2010 - 4:00 pm

In response to: More Parsing Larsson: Querying the Great Beyond

Story vs. Prose

In the first book, the story was lively enough to distract me from the prose. The second book, however, has long...

Jul.13.2010 - 10:17 am

In response to: More Parsing Larsson: Verb Inventory

Actually ...

The first one was much, much better than the second. And that's coming from someone who shares your feelings about the...

Jun.22.2010 - 10:42 am

In response to: The Worst Phrase I Never Fixed

Yeah, that is better.

Still, I worry that dorky marketing copy clients would fuss over the subtle differences. (I've encountered some who can...

Jun.22.2010 - 8:13 am

In response to: The Worst Phrase I Never Fixed

That's so wrong

I sometimes see those in articles I'm editing -- sentences that turn out to be just subordinate clauses. But they're...

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Article: I Was a Teenage Melons Girl

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Jul.27.2008

Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies

Published by Adventures In Reading

While reading 'Grammar Snobs,' I kept wondering if it was healthy to be laughing so much at a book on grammar. I read the book in one sitting (excluding a short walk with the dog...

About June

June Casagrande was born in March and lives in a small house. She wrote a grammar/humor book called "Mortal Syntax" and, before that, one called "Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies." She sincerely hopes you buy a million copies of each.

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