The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed (0395628830) - Reviews and Prices
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The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed (0395628830) - Reviews and Prices
For over a decade THE WELL TEMPERED SENTENCE has provided instruction and pleasure to the wariest student and the most punctilious scholar alike. Now Karen Elizabeth Gordon has revised and enlarged her classic handbook with fuller explanations of the rules of punctuation, additional whimsical graphics, and further character development and drama -- all the while redeeming punctuation from the perils of boredom. For anyone who has despaired of opening a punctuation handbook (but whose sentences despair without one), THE NEW WELL TEMPERED SENTENCE will teach you clearly and simply where to place a comma and how to use an apostrophe. And as you master the elusive slashes, dots, and dashes that give expression to our most perplexing thoughts, you will find yourself in the grip of a bizarre and beguiling comedy of manners. Long-time fans will delight in the further intrigues of cover girl Loona, the duke and duchess, and the mysterious Rosie and Nimrod. The New Well-Tempered Sentence is sure to entertain while teaching you everything you want to know about punctuation. Never before has punctuation been so much fun!
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
A Must Have:
I am a zoning administrator for a Michigan township, and I have seen time and again how poor writing is the cause of significant harm to many people. If you think it's fun to tell a young couple that the house they just bought isn't their dream home because twenty years ago the guy who wrote the rules didn't know how to use a comma, then this book is not for you. If you feel that everything you have to say, along with everything all the people you really respect and look up to have to say, is pointless... more info
Not good for learning.:
This was required reading for a grammar class, and it was not what I would choose as a good reference. The author tries to be different, quirky, or elite with the styles of grammar and their rules; it just comes off as a confusing mess. Yes, there is a table of contents so that you can zip along to the chapter involving comma's and such, but what you get is about 3-4 pages of examples (not always very good ones) of the usage. I appreciate the author is trying to simplify by writing a short book with all of... more info
delectable:
This is yet another of my collection of useful and pleasurable reference books on the English language books. Better than food and wittily served. I seek to improve my use of words in every language which will fill the hours otherwise wasted on menial tasks. I must admit to having a love affair with the written word.
The New Well-Tempered Sentence....:
This book offers one of the most provocative, entertaining, and memorable experiences I've ever had in revisiting the 'rules & rational' behind English sentence structure. I bought it for a friend who is bi-lingual and wants to strengthen her English writing skills. The author makes learning this potentially boring subject matter delightful and absolute fun! That is, of course, unless you are extremely formal and not prone to being either "innocent, eager or doomed'.
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