熊猫吃射走(英语常用语法错误指南EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES
分類: 图书,少儿,少儿原版书,
作者: Lynne Truss著
出 版 社: Oversea Publishing House
出版时间: 2004-4-1字数:版次: 1页数: 209印刷时间: 2004/04/01开本: 32开印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9781592400874包装: 精装编辑推荐
作者介绍:LYNNE TRUSS
LYNNE TRUSS is the author of the New York Times bestseller Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door, and The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels . Eats, Shoots & Leaves, for which she won Britain’s Book of the Year Award, has sold over three million copies worldwide. Truss is a regular host on BBC Radio 4, a Times (London) columnist, and the author of numerous radio comedy dramas. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
内容简介
"""You don't need to be a grammar nerd to enjoy this one...Who knew grammar could be so much fun?"" -Newsweek We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with."
目录
Foreword by Frank McCourt
Publisher’S Note
Prefaca
Introduction——The Seventh Sense
The Tractable Apostrophe
That’ll D0.Comma
Airs and Graces
Cutting a Dash
A Little Used Punctuation Mark
Merely Conventional Signs
Bibliography