Dr Grammar Guy with Richard Lederer

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Author Event, Featured, Lecture, Performance

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All Ages
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With humor and playfulness, Dr. Richard Lederer will illuminate essential grammar, usage, and punctuation, including the terminal preposition, split infinitive, "they" as a third-person singular pronoun, and the utility of the serial comma. Even those who aren't grammar fiends will be sure to enjoy this performance where language and learning come together in a fun and novel form.

Richard Lederer is a San Diego Union-Tribune language columnist, best-selling language author, and former Usage Editor for the Random House Dictionary. He is the author of more than 50 books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series and his current titles, Lederer’s Language & Laughter and A Treasury of Christmas Humor. Lederer is a founding co-host of the “A Way With Words” broadcast on KPBS. He has been named International Punster of the Year and Toastmasters International’s Golden Gavel winner.