
- 164 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
"A clear, entertaining, and just plain helpful guide to the American rules of punctuation." —Lynne Truss, #1 New York Times –bestselling author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and John Shore (with the sprightly aid of illustrator Jim McLean), have written the perfect book to help make your written words perfectly precise and punctuationally profound. With buoyant wit and erudition, Comma Sense reveals the power and importance of each mark of punctuation. Lederer and Shore demonstrate what each has in common with a great American icon: the underrated yet powerful period with Seabiscuit; the jazzy semicolon with Duke Ellington; even the rebel apostrophe with famed outlaw Jesse James. When you've finished Comma Sense, you'll not only have mastered everything you need to know about punctuation, you'll have had fun doing so.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: On Your Marks!
- Chapter 1 The Period
- Chapter 2 The Question Mark
- Chapter 3 The Exclamation Point
- Chapter 4 The Comma
- Chapter 5 The Semicolon
- Chapter 6 The Colon
- Chapter 7 The Dash
- Chapter 8 The Apostrophe
- Chapter 9 Quotation Marks
- Chapter 10 Parentheses
- Chapter 11 Brackets
- Chapter 12 The Hyphen
- Chapter 13 The Ellipsis
- Afterword
- Cheat Sheet