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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Contributor(s): Truss, Lynne (Author)

ISBN: 1592400876 ISBN-13: 9781592400874
Publisher: Avery Publishing Group

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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2004
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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General

Dewey: 428.2

LCCN: 2004040646

Age Level: 18-UP

Grade Level: 13-UP

Lexile Measure: 240(Not Available)

Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.52" W x 7.5" L (0.72 lbs) 240 pages

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product

Review Citations: BookPage 04/01/2004 pg. 9
Publishers Weekly 03/29/2004 pg. 52
People Weekly 05/17/2004 pg. 53
New York Times 04/25/2004 pg. 7
Time 05/24/2004 pg. 79
Booklist 06/01/2004 pg. 1681
New Yorker (The) 06/28/2004 pg. 102
School Library Journal 08/01/2004 pg. 147

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 108314
Reading Level: 1.6 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, 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. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.

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