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Adventures in English Syntax

(s) Eats shoots, and leaves Eats shoots; and leaves Eats shoots: and leaves Eats shoots – and leaves 1. 2. 3. 4. Grammatically, the comma in (s.1) makes as ...

Author: Robert Freidin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1108487726

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 248

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An engaging introduction to English sentence structure, showing how users can apply this knowledge to become better readers and writers.
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The Gift of the Gab

2 If they are numbers, be extra cautious about them. ... 2 Lynne Truss, Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (USA: Profile Books ...

Author: Hory Sankar Mukerjee

Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited

ISBN: 9353286824

Category: Business & Economics

Page: 216

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The trick of moving from ‘average’ to ‘outstanding’ lies in ‘communication’. When you are able to articulate, present and write better than others, you move into the extraordinary league. While most of us agree to these positive effects of communication, we conveniently ignore the downside of communication breakdown, which can lead to stunted professional growth. The Gift of the Gab: The Subtle Art of Communicating will help you develop a communication strategy that can lead to improvements in your working style. Choosing the right words, listening well and getting your message across eloquently are skills that can be perfected. By changing your communication strategy you can increase your motivation, and improve your productivity and profitability at work. This book is a corporate guide that can help you become the person you aspire to be.
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Legal Method Skills and Reasoning

Grammar and punctuation The title of Lynne Truss' surprise bestseller on the subject of punctuation, Eats, Shoots and Leaves 2 shows the importance of ...

Author: Sharon Hanson

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1134047703

Category: Law

Page: 392

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Language skills, study skills, argument skills and legal knowledge are vital to every law student, professional lawyer and academic. Legal Method, Skills and Reasoning suggests a range of 'how-to' techniques for perfecting these academic and practical skills. It explains how to work with legal texts; how to read and write about the law; how to acquire effective disciplined study techniques; and how to construct legal arguments. Packed full of practical examples and diagrams across the range of legal skills from language and research skills to mooting and negotiation, this edition will be invaluable to law students seeking to acquire a deeper understanding of how to apply each discreet legal skill effectively. This restructured third edition is now additionally supported by a Companion Website offering a wealth of additional resources for individual and group work for both students and lecturers. For students, the Companion Website offers: workbooks for each part, containing guided practical and reflective tasks a series of ‘how-to’ exercises, which help to provide real-life legal skills examples and practice guidance on answering legal problem and essay-style questions self-test quizzes to consolidate learning for each individual legal skill. For lecturers, the Companion Website hosts: a set of PowerPoint slides of the diagrams in the text specimen seminar plans, with supplementary notes to provide support and inspiration for teaching legal skills sample legal skills assessment, and accompanying answers.
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Pronunciation and Phonetics

b 4 + 6 ÷ 2 = 5: A pause after six, and another after two 4 + 6 ÷ 2 = 7: A pause after four, and another after two 2 Eats shoots and leaves (meaning ait ...

Author: Adam Brown

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1317935683

Category: Foreign Language Study

Page: 312

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This engaging, succinct text is an introduction to both phonetics and phonology as applied to the teaching of pronunciation to English language learners. Section 1 selectively covers the main areas of phonetics and phonology, without going into any area in more depth than the average English language teacher requires or that the average English language teacher trainee can handle. Section 2 focuses on practical issues related to learners and how they learn languages, and what represents good practice in terms of classroom activities for pronunciation—including aspects such as targets, motivation and priorities. The chapters end with activities to help the reader understand concepts. Section 3 provides innovative sample activities which put into practice the theoretical points covered in the first two sections, answers to the various exercises, recommended further reading (both print and non-print), a glossary of technical phonetic terms, and a bibliography of works on pronunciation teaching. The text is accompanied by a Companion Website with audio recordings of model pronunciations and audio material relating to the activities.
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Fachenglisch f r Laborberufe

2. “He eats shoots and then leaves,” which means, the person eats shoots and then ... 2.2.2 Punctuation Marks and Their Usage Punctuation marks Sentences or ...

Author: Steven L. Hanft

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 3527693440

Category: Science

Page: 408

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Mit fortschreitender Globalisierung von Waren und Dienstleistungen hält an immer mehr Arbeitsplätzen in Chemie-, Pharma- und Biotech-Branche die englische Sprache Einzug. In der Schule hat man zwar gelernt, sich über Alltagsthemen zu unterhalten, aber wenn es darum geht, dem Kundendienst am Telefon die Fehlfunktion des teuersten Geräts im Labor zu beschreiben, kommt doch so mancher ins Schwitzen. Nach einer Einführung, in der die wichtigsten Besonderheiten der englischen Sprache aus Sicht eines deutschen Sprechers rekapituliert werden, behandelt der Autor in 12 Lektionen Schritt für Schritt den Spezialwortschatz und fachspezifische Sprach- und Schreibformen. Die Themen reichen von mathematischen Ausdrücken über chemische Nomenklatur, Biomoleküle, Versuchstiere und Prozesstechnik bis hin zum Umgang mit Regulierungsbehörden und Audits. Gesprächssituationen wie der Anruf beim Kundendienst, die Vorstellung beim neuen Chef oder das Kundengespräch am Messestand werden analysiert und eingeübt. Mit direktem Bezug zur Berufspraxis geht dieser Sprachführer über herkömmliche Englischkurse weit hinaus und bietet wertvolle Hilfe für alle, die im Beruf besser Englisch sprechen wollen. Auch für den fachbezogenen Sprachunterricht an Fachschulen und Hochschulen ist dieses Buch bestens geeignet. Komplett mit Übungen, Tests und Rezepten, wie man die häufigsten Fehler vermeidet.
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Commonwealth Legislative Drafting Manual

2. Eats, shoots and leaves. In this well-known example, the addition of a ... A disabled person must have worked for at least two years for a scheduled ...

Author: Roger Rose

Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat

ISBN: 1849291691

Category: Law

Page: 204

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The Commonwealth Legislative Drafting Manual guides the practitioner step by step through the various things he or she needs to know. It also contains a series of appendices relating to the procedure for the preparation of legislation, the contents of drafting instructions, and some hints to the beginner on the best approaches to the task.
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For example, “woman, without her man, is nothing” and “woman: without her, man is nothing” have greatly different meanings, as do “eats shoots and leaves” ...

Author: Сітко А. В.

Publisher: Нова Книга

ISBN: 9663824891

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Page: 368

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Посібник містить основні теоретичні відомості з монографії англійської мови, систему вправ на закріплення вивчених граматичних структур та тести для навчання практичної граматики студентів I–IV курсів, напряму підготовки 6.020303. “Філологія”, спеціальності “Переклад” вищих навчальних закладів. Особливу увагу приділено нестандартним випадкам вживання окремих частин мови та часових форм дієслова. Посібник розрахований на філологів, перекладачів, учителів та учнів спеціалізованих мовних шкіл, гімназій і на слухачів інтенсивних курсів вивчення іноземних мов.
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The Bumper Bundle Book of Modelling

SCORE 1 sleight of mouth patterns 1, 2 significance 1,2, 3 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7, ... 2, 3, 4 Dreyfus& Dreyfus – Noviceto Expert 1,2 E Eats Shoots and Leaves ...

Author: Fran Burgess

Publisher: Crown House Publishing

ISBN: 0992836115

Category: Self-Help

Page: 460

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A Neurolinguistic Programming textbook which focusses on the core activity of NLP - modelling. It covers the thinking behind NLP modelling, presents an extensive range of modelling methodologies and skills, offers applications of modelling, and provides specific details for model and technique construction.
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Technical Writing

2. At least for the past decade or so, this has been the usual practice for technical ... Truss, L., Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to ...

Author: Phillip A. Laplante

Publisher: CRC Press

ISBN: 0429884508

Category: Technology & Engineering

Page: 280

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Technical Writing: A Practical Guide for Engineers, Scientists, and Nontechnical Professionals, Second Edition enables readers to write, edit, and publish materials of a technical nature, including books, articles, reports, and electronic media. Written by a renowned engineer and widely published technical author, this guide complements traditional writer’s reference manuals on technical writing through presentation of first-hand examples that help readers understand practical considerations in writing and producing technical content. These examples illustrate how a publication originates as well as various challenges and solutions. The second edition contains new material in every chapter including new topics, additional examples, insights, tips and tricks, new vignettes and more exercises. Appendices have been added for writing checklists and writing samples. The references and glossary have been updated and expanded. In addition, a focus on writing for the nontechnical persons working in the technology world and the nonnative English speaker has been incorporated. Written in an informal, conversational style, unlike traditional college writing texts, the book also contains many interesting vignettes and personal stories to add interest to otherwise stodgy lessons.
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Gotcha Good Nonfiction Books to Get Kids Excited About Reading

With two poems for each day, we follow the Mississippi River from its origin in Lake ... Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really DO Make a Difference!

Author: Kathleen A. Baxter

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

ISBN: 1591588464

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 268

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This fifth Gotcha! book, aimed at public and school librarians and teachers, discusses well-reviewed and kid-tested nonfiction titles for third through eighth grade readers published in 2005-2007 with a few extra oldies but goodies added in. Chapters are built around the high- interest topics kids love. Irresistible book descriptions and book talks guide librarians and teachers to nonfiction books kids want to read. New features include numerous booklists to copy and save (similar to the bookmarks in Gotcha for Guys!) and profiles and interviews of some innovative authors such as Sally Walker, Kathleen Krull, Catherine Thimmesh, Steve Jenkins, Ken Mochizuki, and others. Grades 3-8. This fifth Gotcha! book, aimed at public and school librarians, as well as elementary and middle school teachers, discusses well-reviewed and kid-tested nonfiction titles for third through eighth grade readers published in 2005-2007 with a few extra oldies but goodies added in. Chapters are built around the high-interest topics kids love as the authors provide irresistible book descriptions to guide librarians and teachers to nonfiction books kids will want to read. Features include numerous booklists that can be copied and saved (similar to the bookmarks in the authors' Gotcha for Guys!), as well as profiles and interviews of some innovative nonfiction authors such as Sally Walker, Kathleen Krull, Catherine Thimmesh, Steve Jenkins, Ken Mochizuki, and others. Grades 3-8.
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For Who the Bell Tolls

Dahl, Roald 1 Daily Mail 1, 2 Daily Telegraph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 dangling modifiers ... Bob, and his lying lady 1 Eats, Shoots & Leaves (Truss) 1, 2 Eliot, George 1.

Author: David Marsh

Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing

ISBN: 178335013X

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 304

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For Who the Bell Tolls is a book that explains the grammar that people really need to know, such as the fact that an apostrophe is the difference between a company that knows its s*** and a company that knows it's s***, or the importance of capital letters to avoid ambiguity in such sentences as 'I helped my Uncle Jack off his horse.' David Marsh's lifelong mission has been to create order out of chaos. For four decades, he has worked for newspapers, from the Sun to the Financial Times, from local weeklies that sold a few thousand copies to the Guardian, with its global readership of nine million, turning the sow's ear of rough-and-ready reportage into a passable imitation of a silk purse. The chaos might be sloppy syntax, a disregard for grammar or a fundamental misunderstanding of what grammar is. It could be an adherence to 'rules' that have no real basis and get in the way of fluent, unambiguous communication at the expense of ones that are actually useful. Clear, honest use of English has many enemies: politicians, business and marketing people, local authority and civil service jargonauts, rail companies, estate agents, academics . . . and some journalists. This is the book to help defeat them. 'A splendid and, more importantly, sane book on English grammar.' Mark Forsyth, author of The Etymologicon
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Grammar A Friendly Approach

2 This question relates to the joke behind the title of Lynne Truss's book (Eats, Shoots and Leaves – see Bibliography). What are the main differences ...

Author: Sinclair, Christine

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

ISBN: 0335240860

Category: Education

Page: 208

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Grammar: A Friendly Approach is a light-hearted and engaging introduction to grammar.
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Marga Richter

... and piano (Richter), I 2 2 Trommer, Wolfgang, 94 Trumbo, Dalton, 27 Truss, Lynn: Eats, Shoots and Leaves, 1 13—14 Tucson, Richter's travel to, ...

Author: Sharon Mirchandani

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

ISBN: 0252094492

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 192

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This is the first full-length introduction to the life and works of significant American composer Marga Richter (born 1926), who has written more than one hundred works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, dance, opera, voice, chorus, piano, organ, and harpsichord. Still actively composing in her eighties, Richter is particularly known for her large-scale works performed by ensembles such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and for other pieces performed by prominent artists including pianist Menahem Pressler, conductor Izler Solomon, and violinist Daniel Heifetz. Interspersing consideration of Richter's musical works with discussion of her life, her musical style, and the origins and performances of her works, Sharon Mirchandani documents a successful composer's professional and private life throughout the twentieth century. Covering Richter's formative years, her influences, and the phases of her career from the 1950s to the present, Mirchandani closely examines Richter's many interesting, attractive musical works that draw inspiration from distinctly American, Irish/English, and Asian sources. Drawing extensively on interviews with the composer, Mirchandani also provides detailed descriptions of Richter's scores and uses reviews and other secondary sources to provide contexts for her work, including their relationship to modern dance, to other musical styles, and to 1970s feminism.
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What Is Good Writing

In 2003, the sportswriter Lynn Truss published a surprisingly popular book entitled Eats, Shoots and Leaves,2 which entertainingly denounced what she ...

Author: Geoffrey J. Huck

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 0190212950

Category: Cognitive grammar

Page: 232

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There was a time when good writing would be defined simply by adverting to a few literary classics. That kind of strategy is less helpful these days, when so many different styles and voices clamor for attention. 'What is good writing?' sets the terms for a contemporary debate on writing achievement by drawing on empirical research in linguistics and the other cognitive sciences that shed light on the development of fluency in language generally. The utility of defining good writing as fluent writing in this sense - on a par with the typical fluency in speech attained by normal adults - is demonstrated by the progress it permits in evaluating the success of current writing programs in school and university, which for the most part have proved unable to deliver writing assessments that are both valid and reliable. 'What is good writing?' indicates an alternative approach that rests on a more scientific footing and shows why reading is key and why standard composition programs are so often seen to fail.
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Legal Writing

If you are unsure about punctuation issues you may wish to read Eats, Shoots ... up some students: 2 Truss, L, Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance ...

Author: Lisa Webley

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1135329850

Category: Law

Page: 136

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This book guides students through the legal writing process, from questions to final essays and problem answers. It examines how to dissect essay and problem questions and how to conduct and use legal research to answer set questions. Explaining how to reference others' work correctly, it demonstrates how to construct and communicate legal arguments. Students are shown examples of good practice and also common mistakes made in written work, to assist them in developing their skills.
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The Feral Piers

28 Kane and Donaldson, 1-2. ... The interpretative presence of commas (eats, shoots, and leaves) unequivocally marks them as verbs. 38 Two other readings of ...

Author: Rosanne P. Gasse

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

ISBN: 1443889709

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 270

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What do we mean when we talk about the text of Piers Plowman? What is the concept of a literary text when that construct exists in so many variant and feral forms, as is the case for the multiple modern editorial reconstructions and the more than fifty surviving manuscripts and early print editions of Piers Plowman? How do the anonymous roles of author, scribe, and reader intersect to create the experience of the text? How can we judge a pre-modern text’s reception history if we do not know exactly what it was that the early reader was responding to? This book takes a daring and innovative approach to answering such questions as these. It is a micro-study of one particular historic version of Piers Plowman, its scribe, and its fifteenth and sixteenth-century readers: British Library Cotton Caligula A XI, a manuscript which combines the C, A, and B texts of the poem, and which was likely copied out in the first quarter of the fifteenth century. It reads the Cotton Piers not as an ossified relic whose value lies in what can be gleaned from it about modes of scribal production and Cot’s textual relationship to other Piers manuscripts, but as a living text meant to be experienced and enjoyed as a work of literature in its own right. In gaining a better comprehension at the micro-level of this particular historic version, a better understanding of the whole concept of Piers Plowman itself emerges.
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The Grammar Book

... dummy subjects 191 Eats, Shoots and Leaves (Truss) 127 ellipses 91–2 en dashes 138–9 double dash 139 English curriculum, and changes 2–3 etymology 171–2 ...

Author: Zoë Paramour

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 1472972287

Category: Education

Page: 208

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Everything you need to teach grammar in the primary classroom. What is the subjunctive mood? And when do you use a semi-colon? Are these questions that you, as a teacher, are afraid to ask? Cue this book! Written by two experienced teachers, The Grammar Book provides everything you need to teach grammar at primary level. Covering what you need to know as well as practical ideas to enliven your teaching, this book will make grammar fun and engaging – for both the pupils and for you too! Written in Zoë and Timothy Paramour's funny, frank and reassuring style, this definitive guide is all about the importance of teaching grammar as a tool for writing, not as an 'extra' and certainly not as a boring lesson. Instead, the ideas presented are linked to a range of National Curriculum units, with original short texts through which the teaching of grammar is used to support the delivery of the wider English curriculum and prepare children for Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG) assessments. All teaching resources can also be downloaded from the companion website. Each chapter covers a different element of grammar and provides you with everything you need to know as well as teaching ideas, cross-curricular links and resources, making The Grammar Book a must-have resource for teaching primary grammar effectively in the classroom or as part of homeschooling.