A witty manual for perfect punctuation lovers.
This book is perfect for grammar enthusiasts who appreciate a humor-filled approach to punctuation rules. Lynne Truss takes a zero tolerance approach to punctuation errors, entertaining readers with hilarious anecdotes and examples. Get ready to become a punctuation vigilante and join the army of grammar sticklers.
ISBN: 9781861976123
Authors:
Lynne Truss
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Date of Publication: 2003-01-02
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.86
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Description
Everyone knows the basics of punctuation, surely? Aren't we all taught at school how to use full stops, commas and question marks? And yet we see ignorance and indifference everywhere. "Its Summer!" says a sign that cries out for an apostrophe, "ANTIQUE,S," says another, bizarrely. "Pansy's ready," we learn to our considerable interest ("Is she?"), as we browse among the bedding plants. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss dares to say that, with our system of punctuation patently endangered, it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them for the wonderful and necessary things they are. If there are only pendants left who care, then so be it. "Sticklers unite" is her rallying cry. "You have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion - and arguably you didn't have much of that to begin with." This is the book for people who love punctuation and get upset about it. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to Sir Roger Casement "hanged on a comma"; from George Orwell shunning the semicolon to Peter Cook saying Nevile Shute's three dots made him feel "all funny", this book makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.
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