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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…
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When Lynne Truss wrote this book around the turn of the new century, she thought it would be just for grammar nerds. It turned out people care about commas and millions of copies were sold. In the book, Truss doesn’t explain her title, but I will. The cover illustration features a panda, which eats shoots and leaves—as in bamboo and its vegetation. The title, though, is mispunctuated to say the bear first eats, shoots (as with a gun), then leaves the crime scene. Truss offers advice on using apostrophes, semi-colons, em dashes—my favorite—and other marks. Like many writers, I struggle…
From Randall's list on learning how to write effectively.
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