Recording time: 56 seconds
You can be forgiven for quickly answering “no” to the question: Can grammar ever be fun? But you’d be wrong. Just ask Karen Elizabeth Gordon.
Transcript:
Grammar books put many writers to sleep. This one does the opposite.
The Transitive Vampire, by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, teaches the rules of English through vampires and gothic mischief. Every example sentence reads like a scene from a strange, funny novel. You learn what a transitive verb does. You learn where the comma goes. But instead of dull sentences about Dick and Jane, you get counts and corpses misbehaving by moonlight.
Here is why it works. When a grammar lesson makes you laugh, you remember it. Gordon knew that. She dressed dry rules in velvet and fangs, and the rules stuck.
I keep my copy near my desk. When I forget a point of grammar, I would rather learn it from her than from any textbook.
If grammar bored you in school, this book is your revenge.
Go find it.
Can grammar ever be fun? The answer is yes!
