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Eats, Shoots & Leaves

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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An edition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (2003)

Eats, Shoots & Leaves

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.57 ·
  • 21 Ratings
  • 53 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 29 Have read

Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens.

We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good reason to suspect they never sank in. ‘Its Summer!’ screams a sign that sets our teeth on edge. ‘Pansy’s ready’, we learn to our considerable interest (‘Is she?’) as we browse among the bedding plants.

It is not only the rules of punctuation that have come under attack but also a sense of why they matter. In this runaway bestseller, Lynne Truss takes the fight to emoticons and greengrocers’ apostrophes with a war cry of ‘Sticklers unite!’
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Gotham, Avery
Language
English
Pages
209

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Subjects
Non-Fiction, reference, English language, punctuation, syntactic ambiguities, Humor, hyphens, apostrophes, commas, semicolons, colons, exclamation marks, question marks, quotation marks, italic type, brackets, ellipses, emoticons, email, grammar, Engels, Interpunctie, Zeichensetzung, Anglais (Langue), Ponctuation, Large type books, rammar, Langues, Grammaire, Manuels de stylistique, Englisch, English language--punctuation, Pe1450 .t75 2004, 428.2, English language, punctuation
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Lynn Truss, George Orwell (1903-1950), Harold Ross

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2008, Gotham Books
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
April 11, 2006, Gotham, Avery
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2005, Profile Books
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2005, Ru he chu ban, Kou ying zong jing xiao
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2004, Thorndike Press
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2004, Gotham Books
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2003, Profile Books
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New York, NY

First Sentence

"Either this will ring bells for you, or it won't."

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2003

Classifications

Library of Congress
PE1450.T753 2006, PE1450 .T78 2006

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
209
Dimensions
7.2 x 4.9 x 0.7 inches
Weight
2.4 ounces

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Open Library
OL8866394M
Internet Archive
eatsshootsleaves0000trus_k4o3
ISBN 10
1592402038
ISBN 13
9781592402038
OCLC/WorldCat
957493066
Library Thing
4230
Amazon ID (ASIN)
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8600

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Either this will ring bells for you, or it won't.
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