Sélectionnez la section dans laquelle vous souhaitez faire votre recherche. I can't remember being taught grammar, and certainly some of the subject material in this very accessible volume challenged me. 2. The children would learn more about the English language than I learnt in eleven years in the British education system under trendy left-wing teachers who told me that any formal study of English would hamper my creativity. This is an excellent book which guides the reader through the correct usage of the Comma and Apostrophe.

Sometimes I wonder who's kidding who - or should I say whom?

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Truss writes with voice and fire, condemning those who break the rules she feels most passionately about. This book's chatty style guides the reader through the evolution of punctuation as used in English. It is easy to read and is also of use to Children at School, as teaching of Punctuation seems to have lapsed these days, although the uses os Texts does not help.

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The type is so big that there are barely twently lines to a page. The first third is about the apostrophe.

The central message from linguistics is that language has always evolved, more like fashion, and that for 50,000 years there have never been immutable rules, like math.

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Moreover, professionally, I’m a trained and passionate journalist, who adores the development of house style and the popularity of a foundation in So I took last year to deepen my understanding and perspective on this little-discussed cultural divide.

I really did enjoy this book and think Truss (though certainly classist in her own way) has a lot value for those who want to take seriously writing — and being considered writerly.In addition to pushes into forming opinions and specific notes (as listed below), she made a hell of a case for me to rethink my distrust of the semicolon.Likely the critical point is Truss comes from publishing, a student of house styles, and very distinctly not from the academic tradition of linguistics, which is much more interested in common usage.Here are a few takeaways from the book that I will most remember:Perspective on entrepreneurship from an influential VCI curate and send a monthly newsletter of links I've been reading, thinking about and writing myself. Veuillez renouveler votre requête plus tard. La commande 1-Click n'est pas disponible pour cet article. I would recommend this book to remind themselves of this topic or to teach themselves the correct use of punctuation for formal letters.

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Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked.

I have to be really careful with my grammar and punctuation while writing this review, especially as I am doing it on an iPhone and battling predictive text. (I really need to get out more ...)

Many pages have only four or five sentences. This is one book I shall be keeping.

I had this book as hardback, but misplaced it.