Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance 1592400876

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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We all know the basics of punctuation--or do we? In "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," Truss dares to say, in her delightfully witty way, that it is time to institute a zero tolerance approach to punctuation.
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Product NameEats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
ManufacturerGotham Books
Product Number MPN1592400876
Retail Price $19.95
EAN-1409781592400874
UPC978159240087
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TitleEats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
ISBN1592400876
Author(s)Lynne Truss, Lynne Russ
Release Date2004-04-12, 2004-04
FormatHardcover
Num of Pages240
Num. of Items1
Weight0.5 lbs.
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5 Star Rating  "Punctuation"2009-10-27
- Reviewed By User: A2P3ACHA4LD4XB
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

I bought this book as I am undergoing a course in proof reading. Lynn Truss gives an entertaining point of view of the proper use of punctuation. Her presentation should serve very well for anyone to remember the salient points of this art which is vanishing little by little.
 
5 Star Rating  "laughing out loud"2009-09-30
- Reviewed By User: A1DWQY25DGDX67
This wonderful little book had me laughing out loud. It's not for everyone I suspect, but for those who always notice poor punctuation, whether it be in print or in advertising, it's nice to know there's someone else out there who gets crazy when they see it. My copy now has many highlighted phrases. It makes a great gift if you know someone else who had proper punctuation drilled into them in grammar school.
 
5 Star Rating  "500 Words or Less"2009-09-11
- Reviewed By User: ATF7PICC8TIDO
Correct me if I am wrong, but this is a grammatically correct sentence. Or is it? Along with a profound sense of punctuation paranoia, Lynne Truss's book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, delivers caustic wit, legitimate humor and intriguing history (Yes, the letter "s" follows an apostrophe after a possessive name ending in "s" - see page 55). I chose this book merely for need of a good grammatical guide in response to several teachers, and, as of this morning: professors, spilling red ink all over my papers as their hearts bled for my miserable lack of grammatical sense. I supposed I'd find a boring how-to manual; what I discovered was a book as fascinating as a novel. Why? Truss weaves actual teaching with wit, style, and an unimaginable number of stories and references masterfully! While not fully confident in my abilities to write a full paragraph with perfect punctuation, by the end of the book I smiled with a newfound delight in grammar and by the end of this introduction I will have used all the marks Lynn Truss discusses in her guide...
She makes you laugh. Far from the simply subtle style of Struck and White in their The Elements of Style, Lynn Truss is laugh out loud funny. She explains the importance of a hyphen by highlighting how "extra-marital sex... is quite a different bunch of coconuts" than extra marital sex (169). Tying humor to grammar instruction makes it all the more accessible to readers like myself. I never found it distracted from her overall theme, that of a call to fellow "sticklers" to uphold the rules of grammar, either.
She tells stories. She does not just rant from her own perspective: she shares the knowledge that brackets were named "lunulae" by Erasmus in the 16th century for "their moon-like profile" (161). With stories of sarcastic letters written by George Bernard Shaw to T.E. Lawrence about the latter's use of grammar to the quoted thoughts of Lewis Thomas on the semicolon, you'd be hard-pressed to find a page without researched knowledge into the development of grammar in the English language.
She teaches the reader. As soon as I closed the book I noticed a change in how I spoke, verbally even, to my roommate. I literally have been watching every punctuation mark in this critique, remembering her examples on correctness and the importance of not looking like "a stupid person" (98). I feel I have improved.
With a final chapter on her lament at the emergence of "Netspeak," or the internet's effect upon grammar, Lynn Truss ends a book that is more than a guide; it makes a point. She truly wishes to bring the understanding of grammar to everyman, yes, but she also takes a blunt approach in reacting to poor punctuation. Lynn Truss entertains, yet she writes as someone truly convicted by a call to proper grammar; an academician with a purpose able to connect through clever writing and style.
 
5 Star Rating  "Comma comma comma comma comma Chameleon!"2009-08-29
- Reviewed By prozacfan
My stress level has actually decreased since getting this book.

FINALLY, someone understands my, pain!


By the way, if you're running a little low on, commas and need a few thousand spares for emergencies, check out, the Wikipedia webpages. They have extra and unnecessary commas ALL OVER, the darn place. [I have included several samples here for your viewing and window-shopping pleasure!]
 
4 Star Rating  "Hillarious Bestseller on Punctuation"2009-07-21
- Reviewed By janimar
A bestseller on punctuation. Who would have thought? I am one of those people who loves to find spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes so this was right up my alley. Truss explains rules clearly and gives great examples. She is British but explains the differences of some of the American rules of punctuation. She also addresses the way that English rules change with time like not using periods after abbreviations which is occurring more and more. The problem is when punctuation is misused and meaning is unclear.
The book is very readable and funny. I plan on using some of the examples with my high school students.
 
5 Star Rating  "Another Inner Stickler"2009-06-28
- Reviewed By User: A3K9V56RSELQUF
Lynne Truss's delightful, funny, truthful book on punctuation in English is a joy. Knowing myself for a pedant, I had thought my obsession with the misplaced apostrophe and other printed sins was an isolated case! Reading "Eats, Shoots and Leaves ..." I now find that zero tolerance is a norm with others, possibly even many others. How wonderful to find one has an Inner Stickler - and all is well!
 
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