Help a Thief!

And Other Misadventures in Punctuation

Help a Thief!
Caroline Taggart
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 192pg
2 Sep 2021 UK
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9781789293616
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The trouble with punctuation - well, ones 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? 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. ' 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
Caroline Taggart worked in publishing as an editor of popular non-fiction for thirty years before being asked by Michael O' Mara Books to write I Used to Know That, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Following that she was co-author of My Grammar and I (or should that be ' Me' ? ), and wrote a number of other books about words and English usage. She has appeared frequently on television and on national and regional radio, talking about language, grammar and whether or not Druids Cross should have an apostrophe.
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ISBN-13: 9781789293616
Published: 2 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Michael O'Mara Books
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 14mm
Pages: 192

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