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The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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An edition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (2003)

Eats, Shoots & Leaves

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds and explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

So, punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death.
--back cover

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Profile Books
Language
English
Pages
209

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Non-Fiction, reference, English language, punctuation, syntactic ambiguities, Humor, hyphens, apostrophes, commas, semicolons, colons, exclamation marks, question marks, quotation marks, italic type, brackets, ellipses, emoticons, email, grammar, Engels, Interpunctie, Zeichensetzung, Anglais (Langue), Ponctuation, Large type books, rammar, Langues, Grammaire, Manuels de stylistique, Englisch, English language--punctuation, Pe1450 .t75 2004, 428.2, English language, punctuation

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Lynn Truss, George Orwell (1903-1950), Harold Ross

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2008, Gotham Books
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
April 11, 2006, Gotham, Avery
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教唆熊貓開槍的",": 一次學會英文標點符號
2005, Ru he chu ban, Kou ying zong jing xiao
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2005, Profile Books
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2004-04, Gotham Books
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves : The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2004, Gotham Books
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2004, Thorndike Press
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
2003, Profile Books
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Originally published: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references.

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London, England
Copyright Date
2005

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Dewey Decimal Class
428.2
Library of Congress
PE1450 .T75 2005, PR6070.R87

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xiv, 209 pages ;
Number of pages
209

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OL26378355M
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isbn_9781861976772
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1861976771
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9781861976772
OCLC/WorldCat
62124334
Amazon ID (ASIN)
1861976771
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869498

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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 have good reason to suspect they never sank in. ‘Its Summer!’ screams a sign that sets our teeth on edge. ‘Pansy’s ready’, we learn to our considerable interest (‘Is she?’) as we browse among the bedding plants.

It is not only the rules of punctuation that have come under attack but also a sense of why they matter. In this runaway bestseller, Lynne Truss takes the fight to emoticons and greengrocers’ apostrophes with a war cry of ‘Sticklers unite!’
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