I finished reading this book called “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” by Lynne Truss (sub title: The zero tolerance approach to Punctuation).

Great book! This is no fiction neither can you call it boring non-fiction; this book talks about the plight of grammar in todays’ internet and text world.

I’m not a perfect grammarian; but I love to say, ‘I love this book’; and also recommend everyone to read it. She is not a tad bit boring; you will be amazed at her ability to make a punctuation book, sound so interesting!

She has dedicated a chapter each, for each of those punctuations we use; and, the most misused punctuation is apostrophe (‘) and the most endangered punctuation is the hyphen (-).

Did I mention she is funny (sarcastic; I meant she is sarcastic :D) too?

Few excerpts from this book:

- [Comma:] “People who put in all the commas betray themselves as moral weaklings with empty lives and out-of-date reference books.”

- [Apostrophe:] “I apologize if you know this, but the point is many, many people do not. Why else would they open a large play area for children, hang up a sign saying “Giant Kid’s Playground”, and then wonder why everyone stays away from it? (Answer: everyone is scared of the Giant kid.)” :D

- ‘Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.’

Well, I’m not giving you all a summary of the entire book; I strongly recommend, you all to read it. I don’t think, I have become perfect in my punctuation, but this book gives me motivation to be good with punctuations.

P.S: Did you know, this [...] is called Ellipsis?

P.P.S: If I go by the book, my username should be; blackbird-hunter!