Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian

When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a GRAMMAR TABLE sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Grammar Table was such a hitattracting the attention of theNew York Times, NPR,andCBS Evening Newsthat Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from writers, lawyers, editors, businesspeople, students, bickering couples, and anyone else who uses words in this world.

InRebel with a Clause, Jovin tackles what is most on peoples minds, grammatically speakingfrom the Oxford comma to the places prepositions can go, the likely lifespan ofwhom, semicolonphobia, and more.

Punctuated with linguistic debates from tiny towns to our largest cities, this grammar romp will delight anyone wishing to polish their prose or revel in our age-old, universal fascination with language.

Hardcover, July 19th 2022