Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Repost)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation By Lynne Truss
2004 | 209 Pages | ISBN: 0786546328 , 0786546336 | PDF | 2 MB
2004 | 209 Pages | ISBN: 0786546328 , 0786546336 | PDF | 2 MB
If Lynne Truss were Catholic I’d nominate her for sainthood. As it is, thousands of English teachers from Maine to Maui will be calling down blessings on her merry, learned head for the gift of her book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. It’s a book about punctuation. Punctuation, if you don’t mind! (I hesitated over that exclamation mark, and it’s all her doing.) The book is so spirited, so scholarly, those English teachers will sweep all other topics aside to get to, you guessed it, punctuation. Parents and children will gather by the fire many an evening to read passages on the history of the semicolon and the terrible things being done to the apostrophe. Once the poor stepchild of grammar (is that comma OK here?), punctuation will emerge as the Cinderella of the English language.