Questions for the Eats Shoots and Leaves excerpt:
What's the difference between prescriptive and descriptive grammarians?
Which is Truss, prescriptive or descriptive?
Which are you?
Why has Truss written a book about correct punctuation? What do you think are her motivations and goals for this book?
How does she achieve her effect of getting the reader to identify with her cause?
What do you make of her analogy between "good manners" and punctuation?
Are you a berk or a wanker?
Is punctuation important? Why or why not?
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