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Critical Praise

“This is charming and smart (one of my favorite combinations) and, to be sure, extraordinarily useful.”

—Benjamin Dreyer, author of Dreyer’s English

“A wise and helpful book.”

—Mignon Fogarty (Grammar Girl)

“The world of writing advice is riddled with bogus rules, misunderstanding, and pseudo-expertise. John McIntyre’s concise and witty book sets the record straight using evidence, experience, and sound judgment.”

—Stan Carey, writer and blogger at Sentence first and Macmillan Dictionary Blog

“Grammar pedants confirm the adage that little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Happily for us, John McIntyre has a lot of knowledge about the English language and its uses. In Bad Advice, McIntyre excoriates the simplistic, outdated and just plain wrong “rules” that have long haunted English writing. Listen to him, rather than the ghosts of English teachers past, and your writing will be all the better for it.”

— Lynne Murphy, author of The Prodigal Tongue

“John McIntyre has written a guide that feels like a grammatical Innocence Project for guilty writers. This legendary copy editor takes a fresh look at the evidence presented by language purists and finds it wanting. After reading him, I was moved to stare at myself in the bathroom mirror. Someone yelled, ‘Not guilty!’ It was me. Free at last.”

— Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer and The Glamour of Grammar