Irish American author Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes, wrote the foreword to the US edition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. In the book's final chapter, she opines on the importance of maintaining punctuation rules and addresses the damaging effects of email and the Internet on punctuation. Truss touches on varied aspects of the history of punctuation and includes many anecdotes, which add another dimension to her explanations of grammar. There is one chapter each on apostrophes commas semicolons and colons exclamation marks, question marks and quotation marks italic type, dashes, brackets, ellipses and emoticons and hyphens.

Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same rate for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution': she added this dedication as an afterthought after remembering the factoid when reading one of her radio plays. Truss dedicates the book 'to the memory of the striking Bolshevik printers of St.

Her goal is to remind readers of the importance of punctuation in the English language by mixing humour and instruction. In the book, published in 2003, Truss bemoans the state of punctuation in the United Kingdom and the United States and describes how rules are being relaxed in today's society. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of BBC Radio 4's Cutting a Dash programme.

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