Spina Gary. The Mountain Man’s Field Guide to Grammar: A Fearless Adventure in Grammar, Style, and Usage

Sourcebooks, 2006. — 368 pages. — ISBN13: 978-1-4022-0740-2, ISBN10: 1-4022-0740-9.The Mountain Man’s Field Guide to Grammar is the brainchild of a man who loved to write, but hated learning the rules.Conquer new frontiers with this fresh & outrageous take on grammar! The Mountain Man’s Field Guide to Grammar – with its fresh, witty, and humorous style – turns the stuffy old grammar book format on its head, delightfully reminding you that grammar can actually be fun.Whether you are a writer, professional, student, or just an adventurous soul, The Mountain Man’s Field Guide to Grammar is the perfect trail guide to lead you safely through the tangles and gorges of the grammar wilderness.Seasoned throughout with colorful stories, clever anecdotes, and offbeat words of wisdom, The Mountain Man’s Field Guide to Grammar relives the rollicking, riotous days of the old West and the long-lost lore of the mountain man.Preface: The Mountain Man
The Horse before the Travois: Parts of Speech and the Basic Sentence
Dogs and Ponies Pulling the Travois: Identifying Sentence Elements
The Way the Stick Floats: Subject-Verb Agreement
Civilizing Nouns, Verbs, and Other Wild Things
The Ha’r of the B’ar: Mastering the Wily Pronoun
Loading Your Packhorse: Moody Verbs and More of the Advanced Stuff
Counting Coup: Modifying and Modulating with Adjectives and Adverbs
The Tamed Cougar and the Domesticated Mountain Man: Encountering the Elusive Verbal
My Stick Floats with Yours: Conjunctions and Transitions
Claws of the Clause, Forays of the Phrase: Subduing Clauses and Phrases
Smoke Signals: Style and Wile
Usage and Stuff to Make Others Think You’re Smart: The Fancy, Foofaraw Stuff