- Non-Fiction, reference, English language, punctuation
Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens.
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Spare, warm, contemporary and resolved.
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Lynne Truss
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 209
- Publisher
- Ru he chu ban, Kou ying zong jing xiao, Gotham
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780786546329
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On Open Library, 37 have read it and 77 want to.
First sentence
“Either this will ring bells for you, or it won't.”
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