ACCIDENTAL APOSTROPHE:

Sunday Times bestselling author Caroline Taggart brings her usual gently humorous approach to punctuation, pointing out what really matters and what doesn't. In Roman times, blocks of texts were commonly written just as blocks without even spacing to help the reader interpret them. As we enter the Christian era and sacred texts were widely read it became ever more important to remove any likelihood of misinterpretation. To a potential murderer or adulterer for example there is a world of difference between 'If you are tempted, yield not, resisting the urge to commit a sin' and 'If you are tempted, yield, not resisting the urge to commit a sin'. The only surface difference is the positioning of a comma. This super helpful book clarifies the rules that do exist and sets out the options where the choice is yours and whether the use of emojis makes the world a better place. Throw in the odd semicolon and impress your friends. Inverted commas or italics? And where does that apostrophe go? 187pp.