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Advance praise for If You Catch an Adjective, Kill It Absolutely required--and utterly fun--reading for anyone who cares about the work-in-progress that is the English language. Marvelous in every way. --Christopher Buckley All hail to Ben Yagoda! Not only has he publicly rescued mother from the ubiquitous debasement of mom, and consigned shall to the schoolmarm's dead-rules inferno, but--ebulliently--he dresses Fowler, his eminent usage-predecessor, in relaxed American shoes. Yagoda's invigorating interrogation of our language will excite every syntax-obsessed reader and writer. (And there are more of us than you might think.) --Cynthia Ozick

Advance praise for If You Catch an Adjective, Kill It : <br> Absolutely required--and utterly fun--reading for anyone who cares about the work-in-progress that is the English language. Marvelous in every way. --Christopher Buckley <br> All hail to Ben Yagoda! Not only has he publicly rescued mother from the ubiquitous debasement of mom, and consigned shall to the schoolmarm's dead-rules inferno, but--ebulliently--he dresses Fowler, his eminent usage-predecessor, in relaxed American shoes. Yagoda's invigorating interrogation of our language will excite every syntax-obsessed reader and writer. (And there are more of us than you might think.) <br>--Cynthia Ozick

Advance praise for If You Catch an Adjective, Kill It <br><br> Absolutely required--and utterly fun--reading for anyone who cares about the work-in-progress that is the English language. Marvelous in every way. --Christopher Buckley<br><br> All hail to Ben Yagoda! Not only has he publicly rescued mother from the ubiquitous debasement of mom , and consigned shall to the schoolmarm's dead-rules inferno, but--ebulliently--he dresses Fowler, his eminent usage-predecessor, in relaxed American shoes. Yagoda's invigorating interrogation of our language will excite every syntax-obsessed reader and writer. (And there are more of us than you might think.) <br>--Cynthia Ozick

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BEN YAGODA teaches English at the University of Delaware, and is the author of four books, including <i>The Sound on the Page </i>and <i>About Town: </i>The New Yorker<i> and the World It Made.</i> He has contributed to <i>Slate.com, </i>the<i> New York Times Book Review</i>, the <i>American Scholar, Rolling Stone</i> and <i>Esquire</i>, and writes an occasional column on language for the <i>Chronicle of Higher Education</i>. He lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.</p>

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