{"id":22,"date":"2004-08-31T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2023-08-14T16:48:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T02:48:50","slug":"books-a-grammar-book-for-you-and-ioops-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/31\/books-a-grammar-book-for-you-and-ioops-me\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: A Grammar Book For You And I&#8230;Oops, Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;padding-left:10px;border:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/images\/grammarbook.jpg\" alt=\"Grammar Book\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite my English degree, which I got from an accredited four-year university located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, my grammar sucks.<\/p>\n<p>However, when people hear I have an English degree they automatically think I&#8217;m a grammar guru and spelling bee champion and they would journey from offices as far away as down the hall to get access to my supposedly vast knowledge of English grammar.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I&#8217;m not a grammar guru or a spelling bee champion, but I feel it&#8217;s my obligation as a holder of an English degree to fake it.  However, I don&#8217;t know if I can fake it much longer, because the questions they ask are getting harder.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided to buy <i>A Grammar Book For You And I&#8230;Oops, Me!<\/i> by Edward Good from the number one online superstore, because it looked like a book that will help me gain vast amounts of English grammar in a portable package.  Okay, a 430-page paperback book isn&#8217;t the most portable thing, but it sure beats the 921-page hardcover Chicago Manual of Style.   <\/p>\n<p>One of the things I like about <i>A Grammar Book For You And I&#8230;Oops, Me!<\/i> is that it&#8217;s a book that can be read from cover to cover or used as a reference book.  <\/p>\n<p>This is unlike the Chicago Manual of Style, which is definitely a reference book.  Anyone who reads the Chicago Manual of Style from cover to cover has too much time on their hands, is a full blown grammar geek, needs to get a life, is not getting enough television, and will never get laid.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_top&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=theimpulsivbu-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=096543625X\" style=\"float:left;padding-right:10px;width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>Grammar is not the most interesting subject to read about.   <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely below Snaps books.  (Yo mamma is so fat that when they gotta catch people out of a burning building the fire fighters grab her arms and legs and use her to catch them.  Oh, snap!)  <\/p>\n<p>However, the author&#8217;s style of writing and his humor made it easier to go through each chapter filled with complex words, like transitive, predicate, conjugated, adverbial, interjections, participal, antecedents, and etc.<\/p>\n<p>It took me six months to finish the book and I feel like I&#8217;ve learned a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I read the first four chapters five months ago and then finished the book recently.  I forgot what I learned in the first four chapters, which were kind of important to understand the rest of the book, but like knowing nouns, adjectives, and verbs are really important in grammar.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said before, <i>A Grammar Book For You An I&#8230;Oops, Me!<\/i> is also a great reference book, so instead of rereading the whole book, I&#8217;ll just look through the table of contents to find what I&#8217;m looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Just like in college, when I used Cliff Notes to study Shakespeare&#8217;s Hamlet, because I didn&#8217;t read an iota of it.<\/p>\n<p><b>Item:<\/b> A Grammar Book For You And I&#8230;Oops, Me!<br \/>\n<b>Purchase Price:<\/b>  $17.95<br \/>\n<b>Rating:<\/b>  8 out of 10<br \/>\n<b>Pros:<\/b>  Author&#8217;s style and humor made it a fun read.  Also makes a great reference book.<br \/>\n<b>Cons:<\/b>  Would confuse a certain President of the United States because of the book&#8217;s use of three-syllable words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my English degree, which I got from an accredited four-year university located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, my grammar sucks. However, when people hear I have an English degree they automatically think I&#8217;m a grammar guru and spelling bee champion and they would journey from offices as far away as down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1753],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-misc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":641,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/17\/kraft-cheddar-macaroni-cheese-crackers\/","url_meta":{"origin":22,"position":0},"title":"Kraft Cheddar Macaroni &#038; Cheese Crackers","author":"Marvo","date":"July 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Somewhere on this vast planet we call Earth, there is a lazy macaroni and cheese lover who is thinking they can now have the goodness of their favorite food without the damn preparation with these new Kraft Cheddar Macaroni & Cheese Crackers. 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