June Casagrande
June Casagrande is author of the weekly syndicated "A Word, Please" grammar column that runs in newspapers in Southern California, Florida, and Texas. She runs the GrammarUnderground.com grammar tips website. She has worked for the Los Angeles Times' community news division as a reporter,...
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June Casagrande is author of the weekly syndicated "A Word, Please" grammar column that runs in newspapers in Southern California, Florida, and Texas. She runs the GrammarUnderground.com grammar tips website. She has worked for the Los Angeles Times' community news division as a reporter, features writer, copy editor, and city editor. She currently copy edits Special Sections of the Los Angeles Times and teaches copy editing online for UC San Diego Extension.
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June Casagrande is my personal deity. You should know that before you read the rest of this review (or while deciding whether or not to do so).She's funny, she's smart, and she knows when to take grammar seriously and when to tell it to get over itself, already.I could quote this book like mad -- an...
I should be nervous. I feel like you are going to judge every usage of my periods, commas, and semicolons. I mean, who in their right minds would write a review on a grammar or usage book? Well, I’m okay because June Casagrande has already taught me that GRAMMAR SNOBS ARE GREAT BIG MEANIES. You can ...
Yes! I read another book about grammar. Yes! I’m crazy. Yes! I just used three sentence fragments. Yes! I’ve purposefully chosen not to use the perfect past participle—except for here. And, yes! That now makes five sentence fragments.Ah, I feel better now. This book has liberated me from the looming...
After having a long discussion about the difference between "compare to" and "compare with", I decided it was time that I brush up on my grammar skills. This need has become increasingly important to me now that I am a TEFL teacher and my students love to ask me questions about grammar rules, to wh...
I liked this book quite a bit, but I would have enjoyed more grammar and fewer anecdotes. I suppose that would have made it more of a pamphlet than a book, but at times the humorous stories overpowered the subject that was the intended topic. It also reduces its value as a reference book since yo...
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