Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Reviewed by Jade Blackview, age 17
I’m sure we’ve all read that dry grammar text, muddled through the adjectives and adverbs, and suffered through the dissection of a sentence. Boring right? Wrong! The face of grammar is beginning to change. Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss makes grammar much more interesting. Kids who grumbled over apostrophes and semicolons will be begging to read this book.
Truss takes a novelistic approach to this dry subject, making it come alive through real-life stories and funny scenarios on how improper punctuation can make things sound totally different. She gives instruction on how grammar is to be appropriately used as well as a bit of history about names and origins. Grammar has never been so well treated before.
Are you: Confused by Commas? Addled by Apostrophes? Puzzled by Periods? This book is for you! Pick up Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss today for an exciting ride down grammar street!
Reviewed by Jade Blackview, age 17
I’m sure we’ve all read that dry grammar text, muddled through the adjectives and adverbs, and suffered through the dissection of a sentence. Boring right? Wrong! The face of grammar is beginning to change. Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss makes grammar much more interesting. Kids who grumbled over apostrophes and semicolons will be begging to read this book.
Truss takes a novelistic approach to this dry subject, making it come alive through real-life stories and funny scenarios on how improper punctuation can make things sound totally different. She gives instruction on how grammar is to be appropriately used as well as a bit of history about names and origins. Grammar has never been so well treated before.
Are you: Confused by Commas? Addled by Apostrophes? Puzzled by Periods? This book is for you! Pick up Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss today for an exciting ride down grammar street!
