TY - BOOK AU - O'Conner,Patricia T. TI - Woe is I: the grammarphobe's guide to better English in plain English SN - 1573222526 AV - PE1112 .O28 2003 U1 - 428.2 21 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Riverhead Books KW - English language KW - Grammar KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Usage N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index; Introduction --; 1; Woe Is I: Therapy for Pronoun Anxiety --; 2; Plurals Before Swine: Blunders with Numbers --; 3; Yours Truly: The Possessives and the Possessed --; 4; They Beg to Disagree: Putting Verbs in Their Place --; 5; Verbal Abuse: Words on the Endangered List --; 6; Comma Sutra: The Joy of Punctuation --; 7; The Compleat Dangler: A Fish out of Water --; 8; Death Sentence: Do Cliches Deserve to Die? --; 9; The Living Dead: Let Bygone Rules Be Gone --; 10; Saying Is Believing: How to Write What You Mean --; 11; E-Mail Intuition: Does Anything Go? --; Glossary ER -