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The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #342021 in Books
- Published on: 1993-09-16
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 160 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
The basic rules governing the use of periods, semicolons, hyphens, commas, and other punctuation marks are illustrated by humorous sentences.
Customer Reviews
If you want to puntuate properly - get it
OK. For many people punctualtion is just something that "has to be done" and roughly right will do.
If, however, you'd like to do better than that - here is the information you need.
A treat for the eyes' ears
In _The New Well-Tempered Sentence_, Karen Elizabeth Gordon acts as arbiter elegantiae of punctuation. If she is less cheerfully infallible than Fowler, she is also more of an artist of English. Ms. Gordon has great fun playing with the language, and readers are invited to share in the merriment. The first two sentences of her chapter on commas speak for themselves:
"A comma is a delicate kink in time, a pause within a sentence, a chance to catch your breath. A curvaceous acrobat, it capers over the page."
You'll be entertained with examples haunted by a bizarre cast of characters going about their strange and Gothic business.
Keep it on your reference shelf, somewhere between William Zinsser's _On Writing Well_ and Strunk and White's _The Elements of Style_.
