2．A panda eats, shoots and leaves. Lynne Truss’s Eats, Shoots & Leaves has been reprinted exactly as it was in its original British edition, complete with British examples, spellings and, yes, punctuation. So this article really resonates with me. I most enjoyed the nonchalant “clubbing, baby seals” and experienced unadulterated laughter followed by a twinge of guilt. どうですか？二つの文章の違いは、「eats」という単語の後にカンマがあるかないかだ … いいね いいね Text on composition: ‘Eats Shoots & Leaves’ Speaker/Author, Audience, and Message: The Author of this book is Lynne Truss. 1．A panda eats shoots and leaves. This worksheet is for use after reading the punctuation book, "Eats, Shoots and Leaves." The intended audience is typically anyone who can read or write. For example, last year Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You To Know About and Marley and Me came from nowhere to make huge sales. Students are to choose one line from the book, write the line twice with … Readers of Eats, Shoots & Leaves had loved the examples of how sense could be changed by re-punctuating. Eats shoots and leaves.” ... That joke was taken for the author as an example of the problems in grammar, specially with punctuation. There’s the famous telegram: “Not getting any better. The year before, one of the breakout surprises was Eats, Shoots and Leaves, which published in the UK in November 2003 with a 15,000 print run, and had sold 500,000 copies by Christmas. Welcome back to the Hugoversity library, where we read and review PR and marketing-related books to help our students decide what to read next. This is an example of : The message that Lynn intends to gear toward her audience, is that grammar, specifically punctuation is incredibly and indubitably important and should be used by everyone who can read or write. I thoroughly enjoyed “Eats, Shoots and Leaves”. That is why I have prepared this robust post on Punctuation Marks: Definitions, Functions and Uses with Examples. There are a few subtle differences between British and American punctuation which the author has addressed in her preface to the North American edition. Perhaps the most common example of English grammar rules being broken by comma misuse is the famous quote on which this ubiquitous grammar book was based; ‘eats, shoots and leaves’. Lynne Truss shared the story of a panda in his fun-filled grammar book: Eat, Shoots and Leaves… “A panda walks into a café. It is a joke about punctuation and different meanings of the same word. Then an editor at Penguin New York suggested an illustrated book doing just one job: showing how commas can change the sense of a sentence. In Madagascar, several species of lemur eat bamboo, but each species specializes in one part of the bamboo-- one species eats mature bamboo stalks, one species eats bamboo shoots, and one species eats leaves. And I thought this was an idea of genius. Not because I particularly wanted to bare my soul in public, but because her death changed my life and created the conditions for the book to be written. (Or was it “Eats Shoots and Leaves”?) In this case, the word shoots is a plural noun referring a young leaf, not as the verb to shoot. In this month’s edition, prefect Elisha read Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss. You can’t find the joke in the book. When Eats, Shoots & Leaves came out, and people wanted to know the story behind it, I found that I couldn’t tell that story without talking about the death of my sister in September 2000. Lynne Truss with Eats, Shoots & Leaves, which brought punctuation to national prominence for a giddy period in 2003. All of these examples were very funny. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a …