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Eats, Shoots, & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Question 1. The full and complete setting and why it is important to the the literation? Eats, Shoots, & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss takes place in the modern day twenty-first century. It’s an informative book that teaches you basic grammar rules, examples of when to utilize them, and incorrect ways of applying them into your writing .Truss also brings up the struggle that our new generation has, because of the upcoming technologies ;As it has affected the way people do not consider grammar rules the way we should. Even the way we consider “texting”, many of us take shortcuts and brush off grammar as though it has no significance. Once people begin to misplace punctuation, putting it in ways that don’t even make proper English, the sentence could be comprehended in a new manner. In other words, a way that the author hadn't envisioned. However, when …show more content…

(page 71.) This quote informs the reader that not all grammar rules are set in stone. Sometimes the rules can be changed with different rules. It's all about sentence structure: the book brings this up multiple times. "And now, let us just count the various important tasks the apostrophe is obliged to execute every day," is an essential part of the book. (This can be located on page 40.) Most of the book unnerves on, about how the apostrophe is applied incorrectly or neglected altogether. This quote opens up the opportunity for the author to educate the reader about the topic. The author was able to include all the ways about how and when to use the correct punctuation. 3. Explain the narration style in terms of point of view and how it helps to develop the

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