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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

by Lynne Truss
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Punctuation's crucial role, engagingly and wittily explored.

Picture this: a panda walking into a café, orders a sandwich, eats it, then pulls out a gun, fires it into the air, and walks out. Baffling? Not until you realize that a misplaced comma can cause all the trouble. Lynne Truss's "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" will not only offer you chuckles but will also sharpen your eye for those pesky little marks that rule the clarity of our communication. Grammar enthusiasts and English language lovers will find a kindred spirit in Truss's passionate plea for punctuation preservation.

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

by Lynne Truss
Save up to 56%
Compare to estimated retail price: S$27.11  

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ISBN: 9781592402038
Authors: Lynne Truss
Publisher: The Penguin Group
Date of Publication: 2006-04-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Personal Development
Related Topics: Personal Development, Writing
Goodreads rating: 3.87
(rated by 105881 readers)

Description

Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in e-mail and now "txt msgs", we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In "Eats, Shoots & Leaves", former editor Lynne Truss dares to say that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. If there are only pedants left who care, then so be it. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From George Orwell shunning the semicolon, to "New Yorker" editor Harold Ross's epic arguments with James Thurber over commas, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.
 

Punctuation's crucial role, engagingly and wittily explored.

Picture this: a panda walking into a café, orders a sandwich, eats it, then pulls out a gun, fires it into the air, and walks out. Baffling? Not until you realize that a misplaced comma can cause all the trouble. Lynne Truss's "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" will not only offer you chuckles but will also sharpen your eye for those pesky little marks that rule the clarity of our communication. Grammar enthusiasts and English language lovers will find a kindred spirit in Truss's passionate plea for punctuation preservation.

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.