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I read a different edition of this. It was much-hyped and was somewhat of a disappointment. The gap between hype and reality isn't the author's fault, but I just didn't much like the tone of it.I'm a trained sub-editor and have edited novels for people, including journalists. English is a living language - unlike French, which is so strictly regulated that it's dying - which is why it has won the language war. There's a limit to just how strict the rules of grammar should be. I think it's now pe...
Dot, dot, dot - dash - "Where did the comma run too?!"
Since I am a passionate reader and a writer, books about punctuation and grammar interest me. Back when I worked in editorial offices, nothing was more delightful than a debate with fellow journalists on the relative merits of the semi-colon over period. (Some thought that the semi-colon was pretentious.) Going back even further, as a young woman, I was a devotee of the great NYT columnist William Safire and Edwin Newman, the journalist who wrote "Strictly Speaking," one of the funniest books on...
I found this book utterly disappointing. It circles around the most primitive punctuation mistakes and repeats them at no end. It did not answer any of my punctuation questions.If you know that the plural of, let's say, "egg" is "eggs" and not "egg's", you don't need this book; that is, unless you want to get some good laughs about ignorant people who don't know that you don't use an apostrophe to build a plural. And if you should happen to be an elementary-school dropout, you better get yoursel...
Humorous and educational, this book should be required reading for high school students to polish up their writing skills before graduating. I love language in all forms and colors. I seethe when I read internet comments that are full of improper word choice and void of all punctuation. I know English punctuation and grammar can be tricky, but there are a few basics, which should be preserved no matter what electronic age tries. And really, the difference between extra-marital sex and extra mari...
