With chapters covering apostrophes, commas, colons, semicolons, dashes, hyphens, ellipses, brackets and many more writing tools, the book might seem like a torturous textbook, but that’s far from the case. Through similar comical anecdotes, Truss informs readers the proper way to use punctuation while additionally relaying the message that grammar is too precious to become a lost art. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. “The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. “ ’Well, I’m a panda,’ he says at the door. “The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder. “ ’Why?’ asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons. This is underscored by a grammar joke that inspired Lynne Truss’s novel “Eats, Shoots & Leaves”: “A panda walks into a cafe. It’s incredible the impact that a simple comma can have.
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