National Punctuation Day 2019 | Arlington Public Library

1) Between you & me: confessions of a comma queen

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Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is of practical advice. Between You & Me features Norris's laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage comma...

2) The day punctuation came to town

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Gard, Kimberlee

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Language Is fun! Punctuation

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Follow the Punctuation family--Exclamation point, Question mark, Period and Comma--as they join the letters and form meaningful words.

3) Eats, shoots and leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation

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Truss, Lynne

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Lynne Truss, a self-proclaimed stickler, presents a humorous look at the history of punctuation, discussing the use and misuse of commas, apostrophes, semi-colons, and other punctuation marks.

4) Making a point: the Persnickety story of English punctuation

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Crystal, David

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"The triumphant concluding volume in David Crystal's classic trilogy on the English language combines the first history of English punctuation with a complete guide on how to use it. Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a system of a few dozen marks it generates a disproportionate degree of uncertainty and passion,...

5) The new well-tempered sentence: a punctuation handbook for the innocent, the eager, and the doomed

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Gordon, Karen Elizabeth

6) Punctuation celebration

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Bruno, Elsa Knight

7) Semicolon: the past, present, and future of a misunderstood mark

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Watson, Cecelia

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Charts the rise and fall of this infamous punctuation mark, which for years was the trendiest one in the world of letters. But in the nineteenth century, as grammar books became all the rage, the rules of how we use language became both stricter and more confusing, with the semicolon a prime example. Watson reveals how traditional grammer rules make us less successful at communication with each other than we might think. She argues that even the most...

8) Shady characters: the secret life of punctuation, symbols, & other typographical marks

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Houston, Keith

9) Visual guide to grammar and punctuation

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Dignen, Sheila

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"A clear, precise, and comprehensive book that will give children the tools to build confidence in reading, writing, and comprehension through visual explanation.