Commonsense grammar and style / [electronic resource] by Robert E. Morsberger.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-341).

"Based on 'Commonsense Grammen' by Janet Aiken."

Common sense and the psychology of grammar -- Grammar down the ages -- You name it -- Perplexing pronoun -- Who's on first? Riddles of reference -- Pronoun-antecedent agreement -- Case and its curiosities -- Wayward verb -- "Is you is or is you ain't my baby?" Subject-verb agreement -- Adjectives and adverbs -- Ambiguous modifiers -- Confused conjunctions and prepositional puzzles -- Negative negatives -- Sentence structure -- Pitfalls and pratfalls of punctuation -- Antic's -- Grammar is not enough: Digression on diction -- Grammar of Mars.