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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:
|>
|> >    Can anyone recommend a good guide to style, grammar, and punctua-
|> >    tion for a novice fiction writer?
|>
|> 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.
|>

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.

Rules are presented briefly and clearly. Each rule is followed by
interesting examples. Illustrations are entertaining, too.

Here's an example from _The Well-Tempered Sentence_.

        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.

                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.

Joan
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