Lynne Truss’s Eats, Shoots Leaves has been reprinted exactly as it was in its original British edition, complete with British examples, spellings and, yes, punctuation. There are a few subtle differ-ences between British and American punctuation which the author has addressed in her preface to the North American edition. 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 www.doorway.ru by: Now in a handsome, hilariously illustrated new edition: The stickler-tickling punctuation polemic that has sold more than million copies in North America (over 3 million world-wide) is even more fun with the whimsical art of acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Pat Byrnes. The runaway bestseller that has everyone minding their p’s and q’s (and their commas and semicolons), Eats, Shoots Leaves has delighted .
Eats, Shoots and Leaves adopts a more militant approach and attempts to recruit an army of punctuation vigilantes: send letters back with the punctuation corrected. Do not accept sloppy emails. Climb ladders at dead of night with a pot of paint to remove the redundant apostrophe in "Video's sold here". The runaway bestseller that has everyone minding their p's and q's (and their commas and semicolons), Eats, Shoots Leaves has delighted audiences around the world and elevated Lynne Truss to superstickler status among those in the know. Language lovers everywhere will cheer the arrival of this new edition, beautifully packaged in a larger. Why, commas really do make a difference! Adapted from the #1 best seller, this story is sure elicit gales of laughter and better punctuation from all who vi.
Lynne Truss, writer, journalist and advocate of proper punctuation, has come to rescue us from the misplaced comma. In her book, Eats, Shoots Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. You are best known for Eats, Shoots Leaves – looking at your all-encompassing CV is that something you are happy with? Well, it’s hard sometimes. I wrote Eats, Shoots Leaves 14 years ago – but I think it’s fair that if you have a bestselling book, people identify Continue Reading. 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.
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