![]() And in fact for all her slightly tongue-in-cheek militancy, she takes a non-pedantic line where there are areas of doubt or where punctuation becomes a matter of taste and style. She likens punctuation to good manners – something which should be almost invisible, but which eases the way for readers. There are no stuffy grammar lessons here, just accounts of bad punctuation, explanations of why they are wrong, and exhortations to keep up standards. She teaches via anecdote, which is probably why the book is so popular. She wants you to become angry at the misuse of apostrophes and indignant at misplaced commas. Lynn Truss’s attitude to punctuation is enthusiastic, robust, and uncompromising, as her subtitle makes clear. The panda had read an encyclopedia entry on itself which contained the unnecessary comma in Eats, Shoots and Leaves. ![]() The title refers to joke about a panda who goes into a cafe, orders a sandwich, then pulls out a gun and fires it. Who would have thought it! A book on punctuation at the top of the best-seller lists. A radical defense of traditional punctuation rules ![]()
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