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Eats, Shoots & Leaves

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Humorous, pointed defense of punctuation precision.

If misplaced commas and ill-used apostrophes make you cringe, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" will feel like a battle cry for clarity. Lynne Truss transforms what could be a dry subject into a spirited, witty campaign for the preservation of proper punctuation. It's an engaging read that mixes historical anecdotes, cultural commentary, and a touch of grammar pedantry, ensuring you’ll never look at a comma the same way again.

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves

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ISBN: 9781861976123
Authors: Lynne Truss
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Date of Publication: 2003-01-02
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics: Personal Development, Writing, Essays
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. --front flap
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Humorous, pointed defense of punctuation precision.

If misplaced commas and ill-used apostrophes make you cringe, "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" will feel like a battle cry for clarity. Lynne Truss transforms what could be a dry subject into a spirited, witty campaign for the preservation of proper punctuation. It's an engaging read that mixes historical anecdotes, cultural commentary, and a touch of grammar pedantry, ensuring you’ll never look at a comma the same way again.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.