Comma Sense

Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312342555
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comma Sense written by Richard Lederer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" will delight in this collection from one ofAmerica's favorite grammarians. 15 illustrations.

Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429906448
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comma Sense written by Richard Lederer and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ellen Sue Feld
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642507261
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comma Sense written by Ellen Sue Feld and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide for Grammar, Voice, and Sentence Structure “If you're going to have one grammar book on your shelf, make it this one!” —Dani Alcorn, COO at Writing Academy and cofounder of Writer's Secret Sauce #1 New Release in Writing, Research & Publishing Guides, Composition and Language, Grammar Reference, Semantics, Vocabulary Books, Study & Teaching Reference, Reading Skills, and editing Comma Sense by Ellen Feld is a style guide for all things grammar. Learn the rules of adverbs, punctuation, abbreviations, prepositions, and much more. Feld shows you how to write technically, professionally, and personally. Grammar for everyone. Master English grammar with Ellen Feld. Comma Sense goes above and beyond the average grammar book. Professional writers, students, novices, and experts can benefit from learning or relearning the basics of grammar and beyond: em dashes, parentheticals and parallelism, diction and logic, run-on sentences and sentence fragments, and more. Become a master of capitalization and punctuation, subjects and predicates, and contractions and possessives. Test Your Knowledge. After every chapter, take a quiz to practice your new grammatical skills in this great grammar workbook. At the end of the book, a comprehensive test allows you to utilize all you have learned. Inside, you’ll find: The basics of grammar and beyond Tips for better writing Terrific supplementary resources Readers who enjoyed The Elements of Style; Actually, the Comma Goes Here; The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation; or The Perfect English Grammar Workbook will love Comma Sense: A Guide to Grammar Victory. Workbook will love Comma Sense: Your Guide to Grammar Victory.

Author : Ellen Feld
Publisher : Mango
ISBN 13 : 9781642507256
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comma Sense written by Ellen Feld and published by Mango. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comma Sense by Ellen Feld is your go-to book for all thing's grammar. Understand the rules of adverbs, punctuation, abbreviations, prepositions, and much more. Learn how to write technically, professionally, and personally.

Author : Mary Norris
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246604
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen written by Mary Norris and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hilarious…This book charmed my socks off." —Patricia O’Conner, New York Times Book Review Mary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experience with grammar and usage, her good cheer and irreverence, and her finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Amazon, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal.

Author : Lynne Truss
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101218290
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eats, Shoots & Leaves written by Lynne Truss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : University of Chicago. Press
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226104041
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chicago Manual of Style written by University of Chicago. Press and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searchable electronic version of print product with fully hyperlinked cross-references.

Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739465035
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comma Sense written by Richard Lederer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lighthearted primer on the fundamentals of American-language punctuation devotes a series of chapters to each of the major punctuation marks.

Author : Michael Waldman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781402213656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Return to Common Sense written by Michael Waldman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Waldman's book is a call to arms, which everyone who cares about our democratic system should read, absorb, debate, and then use as a signpost for change." - Doris Kearns Goodwin "With Thomas Paine's gift for brilliant brevity, Michael Waldman tells us exactly what's wrong with our democracy and exactly how to fix it in the time it takes to watch a movie." - Jonathan Alter, Newsweek, author of The Defining Moment IMAGINE AN AMERICA IN WHICH a vast number of people routinely vote; where voting is easy, accessible to all, and fair; in which campaigns know they cannot win by dividing slivers of the electorate, but by energizing large numbers behind their plans and ideas. This America is Seven Steps Away. A Return to Common Sense presentsthe Brennan Center report on the most critical flaws in our current democratic process and the bold reforms that will revitalize our nation. End Voter Registration as We Know It Fix Electronic Voting Increase Voter Turnout Campaign Finance Reform End Partisan Gerrymandering End the Electoral College Curb the Imperial Presidency and Fix Congress A Return to Common Sense is a passionate call for change, a road map for restoring the vision of the Founding Fathers and renewing the great spirit of America where the people run the government and the government works for the people. "Seven eminently practical suggestions that cut to the heart of how politics actually works in this country-- and that promise reforms which can actually work." - Sean Wilentz, Princeton University, author of The Rise of American Democracy "Michael Waldman's book is a clarion call for reinvigorating voter participation and other key aspects of our democracy." - Representative John Conyers, Jr., member of Congress

Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.MW/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Sense written by Thomas Paine and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: