Book of the Week:Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation By: Lynne Truss
Who would have thought a book about punctuation could cause such a sensation? Me. Yes I am a lover of grammar and spelling. Finally a book that pokes fun at the improper use of grammar.
The author describes the horror she feels when she discovers ungrammatical signs such as: BOB,S PETS and headlines DEAD SONS PHOTOS MAY BE RELEASED.
Truss, the self-professed "stickler," recommends that anyone putting an apostrophe in a possessive "its"-as in "the dog chewed it's bone"-should be struck by lightning and chopped to bits. (I agree) She guides the reader ranging from ranting to lecture on the common grammatical errors. She points out the need for increased attention to proper punctuation. I found the interspersing her lesson-rants with historical information (the apostrophe dates from the 16th century; the first semicolon appeared in 1494) to be very useful.
The author describes the horror she feels when she discovers ungrammatical signs such as: BOB,S PETS and headlines DEAD SONS PHOTOS MAY BE RELEASED.
Truss, the self-professed "stickler," recommends that anyone putting an apostrophe in a possessive "its"-as in "the dog chewed it's bone"-should be struck by lightning and chopped to bits. (I agree) She guides the reader ranging from ranting to lecture on the common grammatical errors. She points out the need for increased attention to proper punctuation. I found the interspersing her lesson-rants with historical information (the apostrophe dates from the 16th century; the first semicolon appeared in 1494) to be very useful.
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