Cutting a Dash: Eats, Shoots & Leaves
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (571 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0563526203 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 584 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss, gravely concerned about our current grammatical state, boldly defends proper punctuation. 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. 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. 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 Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes a powerful case for the preservation of proper punctuation.
Eat, Shoots and Leaves is a fun and erudite way to learn our punctuation from Lynn Truss C. M Mills Eats. Shoots and Leaves is a little bestselling guide to punctuation that has been a big bestseller. Former editor and grammatical guru Lynn Truss has done a great job in explaining the sometimes arcane way in which punctuation is important in English grammar. You wi. D S H said Remarkable : Interesting. Lynne Truss has done an excellent job educating (and entertaining) the public on punctuation. At least, she's done a great job educating and entertaining me.I began this book with the outlook that I'd finally read a non-fiction book that stood for the truth, and was . Amazon Customer said FUN book!. FUN book!!! If you are in love with the English language, and bemoan the way it's being misused today, this book is for you. It points out our errors and foibles in an amusing, 'I can't believe they wrote/said/did that' sort of way. I find myself learning new things,
. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. #1 bestseller, is not a grammar book, Truss insists; like a self-help volume, it "gives you permission to love punctuation." Her approach falls between the descriptive and prescriptive schools of grammar study, but is closer, perhaps, to the latter. From Publishers Weekly Who would have thought a book about punctuation could cause such a sensation? Certainly not its modest if indignant author, who began her surprise hit motivated by "horror" and "despair" at the current state of British usage: ungrammatical signs ("BOB,S PETS"), headlines ("DEAD SONS PHOTOS MAY BE RELEASED") and band names ("Hear'Say") drove journalist and