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rivers_bend) wrote2008-01-29 09:56 am
rivers_bend) wrote2008-01-29 09:56 am
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
I ordered a bunch of text books and some DVDs last week, and some of them have come. Including The Patriot, a book of short stories and poems by Maggie Dubris, called Weep not, my wanton, and a book for my professional editing class called, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire.
I must let you read the beginning of the jacket copy:
Here now is an enlarged version of the only handbook of grammar you will ever want to read. With this special edition, Karen Gordon gives the reader more illustrations and even more examples of confusing appositives, the many uses of gerunds, the complicated matter of agreements.
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire spins a lively gothic narrative with such characters as the Debutante, famous courtesan, wolf, bat, vampire, mastodon, pizza chef, lummox, lamia, and trilingual solitary. ...
so yes. A vampire themed grammar book. *g*
some examples from the section on Subject-Verb agreement:
The lingua franca in these parts is Rumanian mixed with blood and cash.
The bat suspended from Loona's hairdo was repulsed by her Nuit Blanche perfume.
Though, the book takes care to point out that things get more confusing when you have a group that may act as one or as individuals. To wit:
The menage a trois is rousing itself or trundling off to sleep.
or
The menage a trois are going back on their vows and are going their separate ways.
Blood, bats and threesomes. I like it. *flips pages* oooh! and solitary robots. *heee*
I must let you read the beginning of the jacket copy:
Here now is an enlarged version of the only handbook of grammar you will ever want to read. With this special edition, Karen Gordon gives the reader more illustrations and even more examples of confusing appositives, the many uses of gerunds, the complicated matter of agreements.
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire spins a lively gothic narrative with such characters as the Debutante, famous courtesan, wolf, bat, vampire, mastodon, pizza chef, lummox, lamia, and trilingual solitary. ...
so yes. A vampire themed grammar book. *g*
some examples from the section on Subject-Verb agreement:
The lingua franca in these parts is Rumanian mixed with blood and cash.
The bat suspended from Loona's hairdo was repulsed by her Nuit Blanche perfume.
Though, the book takes care to point out that things get more confusing when you have a group that may act as one or as individuals. To wit:
The menage a trois is rousing itself or trundling off to sleep.
or
The menage a trois are going back on their vows and are going their separate ways.
Blood, bats and threesomes. I like it. *flips pages* oooh! and solitary robots. *heee*
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