An updated edition of the classic tip-a-day grammar guide from New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Grammar Girl podcast, Mignon Fogarty.
One hundred million podcast downloads say it all: Mignon Fogarty’s kicky, practical, and easy-to-remember advice about style and usage has won her fans across the globe. Her first book, Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and her weekly grammar podcast has been hailed by USA Today as “authoritative but warm.”Here in tip-a-day form, Grammar Girl offers 365 lessons on language that are sure to inspire. Chock-full of bite-sized writing tips, fun quizzes, and efficient memory tricks, The Grammar Daily gives you the tools you need to improve your grammar and become an even better communicator, one day at a time.
This revised edition of the book previously published as The Grammar Devotional has been updated to reflect shifting concerns in style and usage since initial publication, including new lessons and revised content throughout in addition to a new title.
Review
NOTE – This book is mainly about American grammar usage.
ALSO NOTE – I read a digital arc. Usually I prefer a digital arc but in this instance, I had some issues. Several of the tips are in the form of quizzes, word scrambles, and word searches. Answers are given at the end of the book which makes flipping back and forth to check my answers a pain. For those considering buying a digital copy, keep this in mind.
I love reading about grammar and style usage though I often, I know, fail to follow the rules or guidelines. I need HUGE laminated notes tacked all over my walls to make things easier but this book does have an index (yay!). Will I use that? Hmmm … we’ll see? I have opinions on some of the issues (who vs that, snuck) covered in the tips while others made me shrug and mutter “meh.” I learned some new terms (Snowclones, tmesi, anadiplosis), that English verbs have moods, and shortcuts to help remember things that I might recall. The information about the language rock stars was cool.
The tips are fast and easy to understand with lots of examples showing what is being explained. Squiggly and Aardvark are often our sentence subjects or objects (and there are illustrations, too). Lots of humor is sprinkled in as well. As with “The Dictionary People,” I’d advise (advise = verb, advice = noun) people to read a little bit a day. I was enjoying it so much that I sped through it and will admit that by the end, my brain was a little bit fried. B+
~Jayne
