Author : John Kirkman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2006-09-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 113414802X
The indispensable guide to all points of punctuation and presentation for computing, engineering, medical and scientific writers who need to express complex ideas succinctly and accurately.
Author : Marshall Train Bigelow
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 1881
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Lynne Truss
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1984815741
Laugh your way to punctuation perfection with this pocket-sized paperback compendium of the hilariously illustrated #1 New York Times bestselling series. Clever side-by-side illustrations show how punctuation placement makes a huge difference in the meaning of a sentence. Imagine this without the middle period and the comma: “The king walked and talked. A half hour after, his head was cut off.” Oh no—a beheaded king that can still walk and talk! You might want to eat a huge hot dog, but a huge, hot dog would run away pretty quickly if you tried to take a bite out of him. Scenes from all three of Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons’s best-selling punctuation picture books (Eats, Shoots & Leaves, The Girl's Like Spaghetti, and Twenty-Odd Ducks) highlight the important jobs of commas, apostrophes, hyphens, quotation marks, and more in this humorous punctuation primer. “Wordplay or ‘grammarplay’ at its finest.” —School Library Journal
Author : Kimberlee Gard
Publisher : Language Is Fun!
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781641701457
Runner-up for the Reading the West Book Awards
Author : Lynne Truss
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1101218290
We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.
Author : Elsa Knight Bruno
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1466821892
Can learning about punctuation really be fun? You bet--in Elsa Knight Bruno's Punctuation Celebration, featuring illlustrations by Jenny Whitehead Punctuation marks come alive in this clever picture book featuring fourteen playful poems. Periods stop sentences in a baker's shop, commas help a train slow down, quotation marks tell people what to do, and colons stubbornly introduce lists. This appealing primer is a surefire way to make punctuation both accessible and fun for kids.
Author : Marshall Train Bigelow
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 1881
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Lynne Truss
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0399250581
Language play iincludes many punctuation marks in this companion to the New York Times #1 bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves! Commas and apostrophes aren't the only punctuation marks that can cause big trouble if they're put in the wrong place. “Twenty-odd ducks” is an estimate of how many are waddling by, but “twenty odd ducks” would not only be a big group, but they’d look very strange! Imagine this without the middle period and the comma: “The king walked and talked. A half hour after, his head was cut off.” Oh no—a beheaded king that can still walk and talk! Truss and Timmons put hyphens, parentheses, quotation marks, periods, and more in the spotlight, with silly scenes showing how which marks you choose and where you put them can cause hilarious mix-ups.
Author : Kate Woodford
Publisher :
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521824231
The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary is the ideal dictionary for advanced EFL/ESL learners. Easy to use and with a great CD-ROM - the perfect learner's dictionary for exam success. First published as the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, this new edition has been completely updated and redesigned. - References to over 170,000 words, phrases and examples explained in clear and natural English - All the important new words that have come into the language (e.g. dirty bomb, lairy, 9/11, clickable) - Over 200 'Common Learner Error' notes, based on the Cambridge Learner Corpus from Cambridge ESOL exams Plus, on the CD-ROM: - SMART thesaurus - lets you find all the words with the same meaning - QUICKfind - automatically looks up words while you are working on-screen - SUPERwrite - tools for advanced writing, giving help with grammar and collocation - Hear and practise all the words.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Printing
ISBN :
Vols. 13- include the annual supplements "Reports of officers and proceedings of the session of the International Typographical Union."
