Anyway, Lynn Truss' little book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, is for all the punctuation police out there with more information on commas, dashes and parentheses that one might care to know. I recommend that one read one chapter at a time; it does not read like a novel.
I needed to finish this book soon since it will be going into the book club book exchange.
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So glad you reminded me about this book! I get "itchy" fingers whenever I see grammatical mistakes.
"I need to finish . . . since," etc. Some authorities opine that instead of 'since,' one should say 'because.' And many think there should be a comma before 'because.' (Others yet believe one should never begin a sentence with 'And.' Thank you, Mrs. Becker, my fifth-grade teacher, wherever you are.)
It was so much fun (as an English major) to see a grammar book on bestsellers lists . . . I still use parts of this with my students.
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