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Book Description
Who would have guessed that grammar can enlarge the human spirit? Writing in a lively, anecdotal style, Lawrence Weinstein demonstrates numerous surprising connections between elements of grammar and human attributes that we aspire to-connections, for example, between use of the "double-barreled" punctuation mark, the colon, and assertiveness, between use of passive constructions like "my hand is guided" and creativity, between use of the first-person pronoun ("I") and heightened awareness. In a spiritual tour de force, he turns a grammar book into an inspiring treatment of what it means to be a whole person. Rabbi Lawrence Kushner writes of Grammar for the Soul, "Strunk and White, move over!" Joan Borysenko writes, "If you read just one book this year, let this be the one."
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