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Summary: I hate this book
Review: The author attempts to be witty, but just ends up being unclear. This sentence is supposed to be an example of comma use:The disconsolate child picked up the rubber remnants of his glorious red balloon and felt, in the flabby skin of such pathos, a darkness in the depths of his rubber soul. Here's another: The oleaginous hors d'oeuvres were followed by beakers of vodka, remorse, and cold soup. Here's a very classy example of the use of quotation marks: The tampon ad read: "First she was a woman - then she was a teenager." I was puzzled that the author chose to explain that in Spanish the question mark comes before the sentence, inverted, and also right end up at the end. In the section about the exclaimation point she also explained about the use of the explaination point in Spanish. I have no idea why. The rest of the book is about English. I also hate the fact that the back page of this book is an ad for another one of her books. I did learn a couple new things about punctuation from the book, but it was a very winding path getting there. This book has all the pathos of a bunch of oleaginous hors d'oeuvres.
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Summary: just what the writter needs!
Review: To comma or not to comma that is the question...whether it is nobler to use a semi-colon....well you get the idea.
Writers just starting out can really use this, people needed a little stylish brush up this will be your cup of tea. Prose are everything, but those little dots, dashes and slashes can enforce the prose or sink them. But what to do what to do?...well here is a very easy to understand and absorb and apply 'Robert's Rules of Order' for all those punctuation marks that often seem contradictory. Gordon gives you the rules the differences and then offers you quick to grasp examples. So, for young writers needed extra insurance or people away from the school room too long and needed a refresher course....
you cannot do better!! Go ahead...make your editor happy!
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