one review
Leslie Moyer
Here's an editorial review of _The Deluxe Transitive Vampire_ from
Amazon.com:
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Karen Elizabeth Gordon is no ordinary grammarian, and her works (including
The New Well-Tempered Sentence, Torn Wings and Faux Pas, and The Disheveled
Dictionary)--are no ordinary books of grammar. A special edition of the 1984
classic, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire is populated by a wickedly decadent
cast of gargoyles, mastodons, murderous debutantes, and, yes, vampires (both
transitive and otherwise), who cavort and consort in order to illustrate
basic principles of grammar. The sentences are intoxicating--"How he loved
to dangle his participles, brush his forelock off his forehead with his
foreleg, and gaze into the aqueous depths"--but the rules and their
explanations are as sound as any you might find in Strunk and White.
Outlining the building blocks of the English language, from parts of speech
to phrases and clauses, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire goes on to exorcise
such grammatical demons as passive voice, fragments, comma splices, and
run-on sentences. At last, a handbook of grammar you will actually want to
read. In the words of Gordon's preface, "Howling, exploding, crackling,
flickering with new life-forms, and drunk on fresh blood (some of mine is
certainly missing), this deluxe edition reminds us on every page that words,
too, have hoofs and wings to transport us far and deep."
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And there are *lots* of interesting resources like this for *every* subject.
Dry, boring textbooks just aren't necessary. For kids who like to read,
they can learn what they need to by reading books like this.
--Leslie Moyer
Amazon.com:
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Karen Elizabeth Gordon is no ordinary grammarian, and her works (including
The New Well-Tempered Sentence, Torn Wings and Faux Pas, and The Disheveled
Dictionary)--are no ordinary books of grammar. A special edition of the 1984
classic, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire is populated by a wickedly decadent
cast of gargoyles, mastodons, murderous debutantes, and, yes, vampires (both
transitive and otherwise), who cavort and consort in order to illustrate
basic principles of grammar. The sentences are intoxicating--"How he loved
to dangle his participles, brush his forelock off his forehead with his
foreleg, and gaze into the aqueous depths"--but the rules and their
explanations are as sound as any you might find in Strunk and White.
Outlining the building blocks of the English language, from parts of speech
to phrases and clauses, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire goes on to exorcise
such grammatical demons as passive voice, fragments, comma splices, and
run-on sentences. At last, a handbook of grammar you will actually want to
read. In the words of Gordon's preface, "Howling, exploding, crackling,
flickering with new life-forms, and drunk on fresh blood (some of mine is
certainly missing), this deluxe edition reminds us on every page that words,
too, have hoofs and wings to transport us far and deep."
_______________________________
And there are *lots* of interesting resources like this for *every* subject.
Dry, boring textbooks just aren't necessary. For kids who like to read,
they can learn what they need to by reading books like this.
--Leslie Moyer
Sarah Carothers
I haven't heard of these books, Leslie... I'm putting them on my
list... you all know the one... it's titled:
TO DO during my free hour at Borders!
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Sarah Carothers, puddles@... on 01/22/2002
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list... you all know the one... it's titled:
TO DO during my free hour at Borders!
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Sarah Carothers, puddles@... on 01/22/2002
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rumpleteasermom
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire is cool.
But I also LOVE 'Woe is I' and 'When Words Collide'
BRidget
--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., "Leslie Moyer" <LeslieMoyer@g...>
wrote:
But I also LOVE 'Woe is I' and 'When Words Collide'
BRidget
--- In Unschooling-dotcom@y..., "Leslie Moyer" <LeslieMoyer@g...>
wrote:
> Here's an editorial review of _The Deluxe Transitive Vampire_ from
> Amazon.com:
>
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