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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed

by Karen Elizabeth Gordon · 1984

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Playful, practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit & black humor. Black-&-white illustrations throughout.

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Introduction

Sentences & what we mean by them

Words & what kinds of words they are

Nouns

Verbs

Verbals

More on verbs

Adjectives & adverbs

Pronouns

Arriving at agreements

Phrases

Clauses

Fragments

Comma splices

The creation of sentences

Subject
educationeducationMore like thisLess of this
Genre
vampirevampireMore like thisLess of thishumorhumorMore like thisLess of thisparanormalparanormalMore like thisLess of thishorrorhorrorMore like thisLess of this
Themes
writerswritersMore like thisLess of thisteachersteachersMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 175 pages

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