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Caroline Taggart

Answers to Rhetorical Questions

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Imprint: O'Mara Books

Publication date: 09/02/2017

ISBN: 9781782437598

Subject: Non-Fiction

Category: Humour

Binding: Paperback

Size: 198 x 129 mm

Extent: 160 pages

Illustration: Humorous black-and-white illustrations

Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)

Edition Status: Out of Print

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Summary:

A question that doesn’t require an answer – what kind of question is that?

The rhetorical question is one of those grammatical quirks that just doesn't seem to have any logic to it. However, now, thanks to Answers to Rhetorical Questions, you will no longer be left in the dark when someone asks you 'What's love got to do with it?', 'What shall we do with the drunken sailor?' or 'Who wants to be a millionaire?'

From the most profound questions of philosophy to queries of geography, science and string length, this playful book is full of information you never knew you needed, including: Whose life is it anyway? How much is that doggy in the window? How soon is now? Are you blind?

The days of being baffled and bemused are over thanks to this tongue-in-cheek book that will have its readers not only laughing out loud but perhaps even learning something utterly irrelevant too.

Reviews:

Contains an arsenal of blinding facts (and clever musings) for every rhetorical situation from the Pope's religion to the length of a piece of string

Daily Mail

Sales points:

  • Utterly hilarious and entirely irrelevant, Answers to Rhetorical Questions gives you the answers to all those maddening rhetorical questions posed in everyday life

  • Caroline Taggart is the bestselling author of My Grammar and I (over 100,000 copies sold) and the Sunday Times bestseller I Used to Know That (over 180,000 copies sold)

  • A fantastically funny gift book

  • Comparative titles: A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi (9781782434320) Avoid Them Like the Plague (9781782434283)

About the Author:

Caroline Taggart

Caroline Taggart worked in publishing as an editor of popular non-fiction for thirty years before being asked by Michael O'Mara Books to write I Used to Know That, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Following that she was co-author of My Grammar and I (or should that be 'Me'?), and wrote a number of other books about words and English usage. She has appeared frequently on television and on national and regional radio, talking about language, grammar and whether or not Druids Cross should have an apostrophe. Her website is carolinetaggart.co.uk and you can follow her on Twitter @citaggart.