Recommend me a.................................

[Flintstone]

............. book on grammar
















(Blue touchpaper lit, retire)

[Jasandjules]

Eats, shoots and leaves....

[Flintstone]

Whoooosh...............................(already).

[Jasandjules]

Go on then, what have I missed?

[dxg]

Well, I'm going to treat it as a serious request and will recommend:


The classic, Elements of Style by Strunk and White (although you'll have to filter out the US English stuff)


Also consider

The Guardian's Style Guide (on the web somewhere)

and

The Economist's Style Guide (you'll have to buy this).


The first will explain the principles.

The second two just provide a series of rules to follow in set situations.

[Ferg]

LOL!

[Nolar Dog]

It will help you to correctly use the points of ellipsis.

[Ferg]

I'm not going to recommend anything to you...

[Flintstone]

Thanks Ferg, someone gets it





Yoof of today. Mutter mutter, millenium hand and shrimp etc


Nolar. Parkinsons (in place of the usual dyslexia defence).

[theboyfold]

Flintstone said:

Thanks Ferg, someone gets it





Yoof of today. Mutter mutter, millenium hand and shrimp etc


Nolar. Parkinsons (in place of the usual dyslexia defence).

I assume this is intentional

[dxg]

theboyfold said:

Flintstone said:

Thanks Ferg, someone gets it





Yoof of today. Mutter mutter, millenium hand and shrimp etc


Nolar. Parkinsons (in place of the usual dyslexia defence).

I assume this is intentional

And this

[Flintstone]

theboyfold said:

Flintstone said:

Thanks Ferg, someone gets it





Yoof of today. Mutter mutter, millenium hand and shrimp etc


Nolar. Parkinsons (in place of the usual dyslexia defence).

I assume this is intentional

Sorry, O2.

[Neil H]

:|

[Simpo Two]

Oxford English Grammar.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-English-Grammar-gro...

[Poledriver]

[ellroy]

Flintstone said:

Thanks Ferg, someone gets it





Yoof of today. Mutter mutter, millenium hand and shrimp etc


Nolar. Parkinsons (in place of the usual dyslexia defence).

Sir Terry P. An educated, and well read, chap.

[cazzer]

It winds me up too but I ignore it.

[essexplumber]

Jasandjules said:

Eats, shoots and leaves....

A panda?

[Flintstone]

Eats, roots, shoots and leaves would be a wombat.