Comma Sense.Comma Sense Richard Lederer & John Shore St. Martin's St. Martin's or St. Martins may refer to:
175--5th Avenue, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of NY 10010 0312342543 $22.95 www.stmartins.com Not just another book on punctuation! What can Comma Sense: A Fundamental Guide To Punctuation hold over its many competitors? 'Fun' is the operative word here, as Richard Lederer and John Shore poke fun at the misuse of punctuation and how choices in punctuation can have very different results. Plenty of examples come couched in this humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was , which makes Comma Sense quite easy to learn. Just consider that here the exclamation point exclamation point: see punctuation. exclamation point - exclamation mark is the 'titan of tingle, the prince of palpitation' and you have some idea of the allure of Comma Sense--and its potential of educating those who traditionally wouldn't touch grammar books with a ten-foot pole. |
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