confessions of a comma queen
so last night i went to powell's to hear mary norris talk about her latest book "between you & me: confessions of a comma queen".
norris spent more than three decades as a copy editor for The New Yorker, so she knows what she's talking about. smart as well as funny, she expounded on the proper (and improper) uses of dashes, hyphens, colons, semi-colons and, of course, commas.
who knew grammar could be so entertaining?
even though literature is more my thing, i tell my students to pay attention in their grammar classes. it makes all the difference between "let's eat, grandpa" and "let's eat grandpa".
punctuation might just save a life.
norris spent more than three decades as a copy editor for The New Yorker, so she knows what she's talking about. smart as well as funny, she expounded on the proper (and improper) uses of dashes, hyphens, colons, semi-colons and, of course, commas.
who knew grammar could be so entertaining?
even though literature is more my thing, i tell my students to pay attention in their grammar classes. it makes all the difference between "let's eat, grandpa" and "let's eat grandpa".
punctuation might just save a life.
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