In a message dated 8/21/2006 4:22:10 AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:
A book titled "Eats shoots and leaves" is a good, slightly funny, way
to polish up your grammar -- I would reccommend it to even native
English speakers. It gets it's name from a joke where a panda bear is
described in an encyclopedia as an animal that "eats shoots and
leaves" and then the bear "eats, shoots, and leaves" in a restuarant
or bar. Without the commas, the shoots and leaves are what it eats.
With the commas shooting and leaving are also things it does.
And I think I've typed long enough...
mu'o mi'e .aleks.
If we're going to be extremely picky, then...
/reccommend/recommend/
/It gets it's name/It gets its name/
/restuarant/restaurant/
"Eats shoots and leaves" is a very good book for grammar nazis.
stevo
.iesai If I'm in a grammar discussion, I really ought to proofread a bit better. |