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Things That Make Us (Sic) (2000)

by Martha Brockenbrough(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: I have mixed feelings about this book. I love grammar. I just love it. So shouldn't I love the person who founded National Grammar Day and SPOGG? To be frank, she began to grate on my nerves. This book has been compared to Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss, but I find Truss's book a million times more endearing. I feel like Martha Brockenbrough isn't on my side--like she's criticizing my grammar with a gleeful [sic]. Though I learned some pretty helpful things reading this book (and there are some mistakes that I will hopefully never make after reading it!), reading it became almost a chore--it became something I *should* do, not something I was delighted to do.
review 2: Half of this book is commentary on the grammar problems of our society. That's what I e... morexpected to be in this book. I enjoyed her commentary, as I enjoy it in her column(s?).The other half of this book is How To Use Proper Grammar. I may have learned one or two things, but most of it was so basic that it made the book a chore to read. The people that need the textbook half won't get the commentary. The people that are educated enough to enjoy the commentary don't need the textbook half. It probably should have been two separate books. less

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