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Eats, Shoots & Leaves

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

by Lynne Truss

Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Paperback, 209 pages, Penguin Group USA, List Price: $12 | purchase

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Book Summary

Looks at the history of punctuation and the rules governing the use of apostrophes, commas, dashes, hyphens, colons and semicolons.

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  • Punctuation,
  • English language

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