Comma Sense A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation [Paperback]

Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and John Shore (with the sprightly aid of illustrator Jim McLean), have written the perfect book to help make your written words perfectly precise and punctuationally profound.
Don't expectComma Senseto be a dry, academic tome. On the contrary, the authors show how each mark of punctuationno matter how seemingly arcanecan be effortlessly associated with a great American icon: the underrated yet powerful period with Seabiscuit; the jazzy semicolon with Duke Ellington; even the rebel apostrophe with famed outlaw Jesse James. But this book is way more than a flight of whimsy. When you've finishedComma Sense,you'll not only have mastered everything you need to know about punctuation through Lederer and Shore's simple, clear, and right-on-the-mark rules, you'll have had fun doing so. When you're done laughing and learning, you'll be a veritable punctuation whiz, ready to make your marks accurately, sensitively, and effectively.

Comma Senseis a clear, entertaining, and just plain helpful guide to the American rules of punctuation. Lynne Truss, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Of my 465 books on punctuation---I've read them all---Comma Sense is the wisest and funniest. It's the only one you really need. Bryan A. Garner, author of Garner's Modern American Usage

A thorough field guide to the pesky little critters of the punctuation forest.Lederer and Shore hit the marks! Bill Walsh, author of The Elephants of Style

Who else would call the exclamation point 'this titan of tingle, this prince of palpitation'? Who else would call the apostrophe the Jesse James of punctuation? Who else would compare l£6