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The new well-tempered sentence : a punctuation handbook for the innocent, the eager, and the doomed / Karen Elizabeth Gordon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon, Karen Elizabeth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Punctuation.
- English language.
- Local Subjects:
- English language--Punctuation.
- Physical Description:
- x, 148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Rev. and expanded.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1993.
- Summary:
- 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!
- Contents:
- The exclamation point!
- The question mark
- The period
- The comma
- The semicolon
- The colon
- The hyphen
- The dash
- Quotation marks
- Italics
- Parentheses
- Brackets
- The slash
- The apostrophe
- Ellipses.
- Notes:
- Revised edition of: The well-tempered sentence. 1983.
- ISBN:
- 0395628830
- 9780395628836
- OCLC:
- 27684698
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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