Help a Thief! And Other Misadventures in Punctuation

Name: Help a Thief!
Author: Caroline Taggart

Auteur: Caroline Taggart

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Caroline Taggart

Engels
Paperback
9781789293616
02 september 2021
192 pagina's

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Caroline Taggart

Caroline Taggart worked in publishing as an editor of popular nonfiction for 30 years before being asked to write I Used to Know That, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Her later books include My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?) and Her Ladyship's Guide to the Queen's English. As a result, she has appeared frequently on BBC Breakfast and on national and regional radio, talking about language, grammar and Pythagoras's theorem. With her editorial hat on, she also visits writers' conferences around the country.

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Sunday Times bestselling author Caroline Taggart brings her usual gently humorous approach to punctuation, pointing out what really matters and what doesn't.

A re-issue of the popular 2017 hardback edition, The Accidental Apostrophe.
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The trouble with punctuation - well, one of the troubles, anyway - is that too many of the experts suggest leaving it to the writer's judgement. What use is that if you've simply never been taught the difference between a colon and a semicolon, or where those wretched apostrophes go?

'Engagingly written, the book is highly readable and will make you think about the way you use punctuation - and that's got to be a good thing' - Parents in Touch
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Caroline Taggart, who has made a name for herself expounding on the subjects of grammar, usage and words generally (and who for decades made her living putting in the commas in other people's work), takes her usual gently humorous approach to punctuation. She points out what matters and what doesn't; why using six exclamation marks where one will do is perfectly OK in a text but will lose you marks at school; why hang glider pilots in training really need a hyphen; and how throwing in the odd semicolon will impress your friends. Sometimes opinionated but never dogmatic, she is an ideal guide to the (perceived) minefield that is punctuation.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 september 2021
Aantal pagina's: 192

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Hoofdauteur: Caroline Taggart
Hoofduitgeverij: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd

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Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 14 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 129 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 14 mm
Verpakking lengte: 198 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 180 g

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