Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
of Lynne Truss
Description
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. 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.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 209 pages
- Publisher The Penguin Group
- Publication Date April 2006
- First Publication 01/02/03
- Language English
- ISBN 9781592402038
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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