Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Truss LynnePaperback
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Truss LynnePaperback The spirited and scholarly #1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how-to's to…
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Truss LynnePaperback
The spirited and scholarly #1 New York Times bestseller combines boisterous history with grammar how-to's to show how important punctuation is in our world--period.In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. Using examples from literature, history, neighborhood signage, and her own imagination, Truss shows how meaning is shaped by commas and apostrophes, and the hilarious consequences of punctuation gone awry.Featuring a foreword by Frank McCourt, and interspersed with a lively history of punctuation from the invention of the question mark in the time of She proclaims, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are.