[PDF.71xl] When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse

When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse

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 | #625126 in Books |  2007-12-26 |  2007-12-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.60 x5.30l,.62 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Worthy Companion to "Sound on the Page"|By Hamilton Beck|John Stuart Mill once bravely claimed that adjectives, nouns and verbs represent "fundamental categories of human thought." It takes Ben Yagoda very little time to conclude that this fails to withstand serious scrutiny. After all, other languages classify things differently, and "any parts-of-speech scheme leaves gaping|From Publishers Weekly|Yagoda (The Sound on the Page) isn't trying to reinvent the style guide, just offering his personal tour of some of the English language's idiosyncrasies. Using the parts of speech as signposts, he charts an amiable path between tho

What do you get when you mix nine parts of speech, one great writer, and generous dashes of insight, humor, and irreverence? One phenomenally entertaining language book.

In his waggish yet authoritative book, Ben Yagoda has managed to undo the dark work of legions of English teachers and libraries of dusty grammar texts. Not since School House Rock have adjectives, adverbs, articles, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and ver...

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