Gordon, Karen Elizabeth

This handbook is revised and enlarged with fuller explanations of the rules of punctuation, additional graphics, and further character development and drama--all the while redeeming punctuation from the perils of boredom.

A collection of more than one hundred letters that were written by famous men to their mothers; includes letters from William Carlos Williams, Elvis, Baudelaire, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Benjamin Britten.

A dictionary of more than two hundred unusual English-language terms of international origin.

Presents an illustrated guide to the proper use of punctuation, covering the exclamation point, question mark, period, comma, semicolon, colon, hyphen, dash, quotation marks, italics, parenthese, brackets, the slash, apostrophe, and ellipse, each with humorous and outlandish example sentences.

Examples of confusing appositives, many uses of gerunds, and the complicated matter of agreements.