Woe Is I: The Grammarphobes Guide
to Better English in Plain English,
Second Edition by Patricia T.
OConner
Very Usefull
Written by Patricia T. OConner, an editor at the New York Times Book
Review, Woe Is I gives lighthearted, witty instruction on the subject most
of us dreaded in school--grammar. Discussion is brief and concise, and
much more engaging than the grammar books you may remember. With
chapter titles such as Woe is I: Therapy for Pronoun Anxiety, Your Truly:
The Possessive and the Possessed, Verbal Abuse: Words on the
Endangered List, Comma Sutra; The Joy of Punctuation, and Death
Sentence: Do Cliches Deserve to Die?, OConner proves that even
grammar can make for entertaining reading.

Personal Review: Woe Is I: The Grammarphobes Guide to Better
English in Plain English, Second Edition by Patricia T. OConner
I sense from the negative reviews that these are folks with little
understanding that English is a language that grows and changes. I have
been a life-long English teacher and currently teach writing, part time, at
Miami Dade College. Many of my students have been drilled to death with
grammar workbooks and five-paragraph essays, coming to me with little
taste for more writing. And (oops--there I go starting a sentence with "and")
I do my best to make writing interesting, forcing them to write about things
they know, feel passion for. Then we line-edit. And the best reference out
there is this one. So nix to all those negatives, folks who undoubtedly think
English is a fixed language. Let me tell you this: it is not. My students, on
the whole, come to me speaking the language as a second or third. And
they love having a useful reference. Thanks, Dr. O'Conner.
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