Grammar Snobs Make Good Prison Brides
1. A Snob for All Seasons—Shared Possessives
2. For Whom the Snob Trolls—“Who”/“Whom” and Why You’re Right Not to Care
3. Passing the SIMPSONS TEST—It's “Till,” Not “’Til”
4. To Boldly Blow—Only Windbags Fuss over Split Infinitives
5. The Sexy Mistake—“To Lay” versus “To Lie”
6. Snobbery Up with Which You Should Not Put—Prepositions
7. Is That a Dangler in Your Memo or Are You Just Glad to See Me?
10. The Comma Denominator—Good News: No One Knows How to Use These Things
11. Semicolonoscopy—Colons, Semicolons, Dashes, Hyphens, and Other Probing Annoyances
12. The O.C.: Where the ’80s Never Die—Lessons on the Apostrophe from Behind the Orange Curtain
15. I’ll Take “I Feel Like a Moron” for $200, Alex—When to Put Punctuation Inside Quotation Marks
16. A Chapter Dedicated to Those Other Delights of Punctuation
18. R U Uptite?—Shortcuts in the Digital Age and the Meanies Who Hate Them
21. Well, Well, Aren’t You Good?—Adverbs Love Action
22. Fodder for Those Mothers—“Irregardless” and Other Slipups We Nonsnobs Can’t Afford
23. I Wish I Were Batgirl—The Subjunctive Mood
24. Mommy’s All Wrong, Daddy’s All Wrong—The Truth about “Cans” and “Dones”
26. How to Impress Brad Pitt—“Affect” versus “Effect”
27. And You Too Can Begin Sentences with “And,” “So,” “But,” and “Because”
28. Your Boss Is Not Jesus—Possessives and Words Ending in “S,” “X,” and “Z”
29. The Silence of the Linguists—Double Possessives and Possessives with Gerunds
30. I’m Writing This While Naked—The Oh-So-Steamy Predicate Nominative
33. How to Never, Ever Offend Anyone with Inadvertently Sexist or Racist Language
34. Complete Sentences? Optional!
35. It’s/Its a Classroom Ditz—Or How I Learned to Stop Fuming and Love the Jerkwad
36. Eight, Nine, 10, 11—How to Write Numbers
37. If at First You Don’t Irk a Snob, Try and Try Again—“Try To” versus “Try And”