Read only on Litres

The book cannot be downloaded as a file, but can be read in our app or online on the website.

Основной контент книги Semicolon
Text

Volume 166 pages

0+

Semicolon

How a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life
Read only on Litres

The book cannot be downloaded as a file, but can be read in our app or online on the website.

$11.93

About the book

‘Fascinating… I loved this book; I really did’ David Crystal, SpectatorA biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling grammar rules.Cecelia Watson used to be obsessive about grammar rules. But then she began teaching. And that was when she realized that strict rules aren’t always the best way of teaching people how to make words say what they want them to; that they are even, sometimes, best ignored.One punctuation mark encapsulates this thorny issue more clearly than any other. The semicolon. Hated by Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut and Orwell, and loved by Herman Melville, Henry James and Rebecca Solnit, it is the most divisive punctuation mark in the English language, and many are too scared to go near it. But why? When is it effective? Have we been misusing it? Should we even care?In this warm, funny, enlightening and thoroughly original book, Cecelia Watson takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the surprising history of the semicolon and explores the remarkable power it can wield, if only we would stop being afraid of it.Forget the rules; you’re in charge. It’s time to make language do what you want it to.

Log in, to rate the book and leave a review
Book Cecelia Watson «Semicolon» — read online on the website. Leave comments and reviews, vote for your favorites.
Age restriction:
0+
Volume:
166 p. 27 illustrations
ISBN:
9780008291587
Copyright holder:
HarperCollins
Draft, audio format available
Средний рейтинг 4,8 на основе 36 оценок
Draft
Средний рейтинг 4,2 на основе 34 оценок
18+
Text
Средний рейтинг 5 на основе 20 оценок
Draft
Средний рейтинг 4,7 на основе 7 оценок
Audio
Средний рейтинг 4,2 на основе 1012 оценок
Draft
Средний рейтинг 4,9 на основе 202 оценок
Text, audio format available
Средний рейтинг 4,7 на основе 967 оценок
Audio
Средний рейтинг 4,6 на основе 1058 оценок
Text, audio format available
Средний рейтинг 4,5 на основе 49 оценок
Audio
Средний рейтинг 4,6 на основе 128 оценок
Text
Средний рейтинг 0 на основе 0 оценок