Eats, Shoots & Leaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eats, Shoots & Leaves write by Lynne Truss. This book was released on 2004-04-12. Eats, Shoots & Leaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Eats MORE, Shoots & Leaves
Eats MORE, Shoots & Leaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eats MORE, Shoots & Leaves write by Lynne Truss. This book was released on 2019-10-22. Eats MORE, Shoots & Leaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Laugh your way to punctuation perfection with this pocket-sized paperback compendium of the hilariously illustrated #1 New York Times bestselling series. Clever side-by-side illustrations show how punctuation placement makes a huge difference in the meaning of a sentence. Imagine this without the middle period and the comma: “The king walked and talked. A half hour after, his head was cut off.” Oh no—a beheaded king that can still walk and talk! You might want to eat a huge hot dog, but a huge, hot dog would run away pretty quickly if you tried to take a bite out of him. Scenes from all three of Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons’s best-selling punctuation picture books (Eats, Shoots & Leaves, The Girl's Like Spaghetti, and Twenty-Odd Ducks) highlight the important jobs of commas, apostrophes, hyphens, quotation marks, and more in this humorous punctuation primer. “Wordplay or ‘grammarplay’ at its finest.” —School Library Journal
Twenty-Odd Ducks
Twenty-Odd Ducks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twenty-Odd Ducks write by Lynne Truss. This book was released on 2008-08-21. Twenty-Odd Ducks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Language play iincludes many punctuation marks in this companion to the New York Times #1 bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves! Commas and apostrophes aren't the only punctuation marks that can cause big trouble if they're put in the wrong place. “Twenty-odd ducks” is an estimate of how many are waddling by, but “twenty odd ducks” would not only be a big group, but they’d look very strange! Imagine this without the middle period and the comma: “The king walked and talked. A half hour after, his head was cut off.” Oh no—a beheaded king that can still walk and talk! Truss and Timmons put hyphens, parentheses, quotation marks, periods, and more in the spotlight, with silly scenes showing how which marks you choose and where you put them can cause hilarious mix-ups.
Have You Eaten Grandma?
Have You Eaten Grandma? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Have You Eaten Grandma? write by Gyles Brandreth. This book was released on 2019-08-13. Have You Eaten Grandma? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For anyone who wants to make fewer (not less) grammar mistakes, a lively, effective, and witty guide to all the ins and outs of the English language, reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Our language is changing, literary levels are declining, and our grasp of grammar is at a crisis point. From commas to colons, apostrophes to adverbs, there are countless ways we can make mistakes when writing or speaking. But do not despair! Great Britain’s most popular grammar guru has created the ultimate modern manual for English speakers on both sides of the Atlantic. In this brilliantly funny and accessible guide to proper punctuation and so much more, Gyles Brandreth explores the linguistic horrors of our times, tells us what we’ve been doing wrong and shows us how, in the future, we can get it right every time. Covering everything from dangling participles to transitive verbs, from age-old conundrums like “lay” vs. “lie,” to the confounding influences of social media on our everyday language, Have You Eaten Grandma? is an endlessly useful and entertaining resource for all.
Eating Wildly
Eating Wildly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eating Wildly write by Ava Chin. This book was released on 2016-09-13. Eating Wildly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chin, who writes the "Wild Edibles" column for the New York Times, goes looking for love, blackberries, and wild garlic in this wildly uneven, yet warmly exhilarating memoir. Trekking through Central Park and other urban beaten paths and backyards, Chin leads us on a journey of discovery as she searches for the tender shoots poking through cement cracks and hardy wild plants resisting winter's bite.--
