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English
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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...
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English
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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) The new well-tempered sentence: a punctuation handbook for the innocent, the eager, and the doomed
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Ticknor & Fields
Pub. Date
1993.
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English
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Publisher
EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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A great reference to help children understand the rules of grammar and punctuation. Grammatical concepts are broken down with simple, clear explanations and illustrations. Fun exercises help to make this a lively read, as well as a useful reference.
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Publisher
Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
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Students of English whose first language is Spanish will find this book ideal for study and test preparation. Following an introductory chapter that offers study advice and tips on correct English pronunciation, the author covers English verbs in all tenses, moods, and voices; nouns in the nominative, possessive, and objective cases; articles, adjectives, adverbs, comparatives and superlatives, prepositions, pronouns, numbers, and interjections; and...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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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,...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"A pocket-sized paperback compendium of the hilariously illustrated #1 New York Times bestselling series of books about punctuation. Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons's hilariously re-imagined children's adaptation of Eats, Shoots & Leaves was a wild success when it came out in 2006, spending five weeks at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. The Girl's Like Spaghetti and Twenty-Odd Ducks followed with equal success, and now all three are combined...
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Sourcebooks eXplore, an imprint of Sourcebooks Kids
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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You can't believe everything you hear! Did you know that a single word can have many different meanings? Sometimes two words that sound alike can be spelled completely differently! Ptolemy the Pterodactyl is back to show us all how absurd and fun language can be when homophones, homonyms, and tricky punctuation are at play.
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