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.
Don't expect Comma Sense to
be a dry, academic tome. On the contrary, the authors show how each mark of
punctuation--no matter how seemingly arcane--can be effortlessly associated
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. But this book is way more than a flight of whimsy.
When you've finished Comma Sense, you'll not only have mastered everything you
need to know about punctuation through Lederer and Shore's simple, clear, and
right-on-the-mark rules, you'll have had fun doing so. When you're done
laughing and learning, you'll be a veritable punctuation whiz, ready to make
your marks accurately, sensitively, and effectively.
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