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- From: sasjcs@canoe.unx.sas.com (Joan Stout)
- Subject: Re: Style, grammar, punctuation - recommendation?
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:41:44 GMT
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- In article <75615@apple.apple.COM>, chuq@Apple.COM (Eeyore's Evil Twin) writes:
- |> wherndon@smiley.mitre.org (William Herndon) writes:
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- |> > Can anyone recommend a good guide to style, grammar, and punctua-
- |> > tion for a novice fiction writer?
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- |> I like MRS. THISTLEBOTTOM'S HOBGOBLINS from Thomas Bernstein. Very
- |> un-dogmatic and fun to read. In fact, anything by Bernstein is usually worth
- |> reading, but this book not only discusses good grammar, but also discusses
- |> all of the stuff you're taught taht is either wrong or blown out of
- |> proportion.
- |>
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- For something else a little different, try _The Well-Tempered Sentence,
- A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed_, and
- _The Transitive Vampire, A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the
- Eager, and the Doomed_. Both are by Karen Elizabeth Gordon.
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- Rules are presented briefly and clearly. Each rule is followed by
- interesting examples. Illustrations are entertaining, too.
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- Here's an example from _The Well-Tempered Sentence_.
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- Appositives - words that follow a noun or pronoun and identify
- it - are usually set off by commas if they are nonrestrictive.
- Such words add parenthetical information.
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- Her cat, Mount Diablo Base Line as Seen from Highway
- 395 Just North of Bridgeport, knew how to give an
- admirable back rub with his well-tempered and discreet
- claws.
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- Joan
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- | Joan Stout |
- | Technical Writer |
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- | SAS Institute, Inc. |
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