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I should like this book but don’t really.

July 1, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I am trying to figure out who this book is for. It’s written as if for people who already know grammar rules, innately or expressly. But if it’s for them, why simply tell the stories of the punctuation rules, knowing we already know them? If it’s to teach people, well, then the tone is wrong. So what I think would have made this work would be to provide lots and lots of funny examples of punctuation gone wrong, but it just wasn’t there. Or a […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: eats shoots and leaves, lynne truss

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:259 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: eats shoots and leaves, lynne truss ·
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