Can You Eat, Shoot and Leave? (Workbook)
About this ebook
The punctuation panda is back!
Armed with a permanent marker, a smidgen of confidence, and a copy of ‘Can You Eat, Shoot and Leave?’, everyone now has the chance to become a member of the punctuation elite.
Established punctuation sticklers:
Fine-tune existing skills, taking guilty pleasure from testing your (already somewhat unsettling) seventh sense.
Confused novices:
Never again inflict flawed and perplexing punctuation on your innocent readers.
The only official workbook for the international bestseller ‘Eats, Shoots and Leaves.’
- Introductory Cosmo-style questionnaire helps readers identify their level of punctuation prowess.
- Mirrors the structure and light-hearted style of Lynne Truss’s hugely popular ‘Eats, Shoots and Leaves’. Topics include apostrophes, commas, colons and semicolons, hyphens and more.
- Each chapter concentrates on one particular punctuation mark. Origin, usage rules and their exceptions introduce the entertaining activities which have a ‘challenge-yourself’ format.
- The bite-sized exercises in each chapter and longer texts in ‘The Final Challenge’ put punctuation skills to the test.
- Specially designed for eReaders including iPad, with clear text throughout.
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About the author
Lynne Truss is one of Britain’s most well-loved comic writers and is the author of the worldwide bestsellers ‘Eats, Shoots & Leaves’ and ‘Talk to the Hand’. She reviews for the Sunday Times and writes regularly for radio.
