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Re: School and Punctuation
Posted By: teach, on host 209.226.89.65
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 15:52:52
In Reply To: Re: School and Punctuation posted by Sam on Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 08:46:05:

> > I agree with your teacher about arguing on punctuation and the importance of a correct one.
> > Who studies Latin language knows how a comma may totally change the meaning of a sentence:
>
> I stumbled upon an interesting way in which a comma changes an English sentence around quite by accident.

My favourite example is one I use to emphasize puncutation for senior classes. I write: "A woman without her man is nothing." This raises the ire of all female students. Then I carefully add a little bit of punctuation, changing the sentence to "A woman: without her, man is nothing."

te (not above sneakiness to teach punctuation) ach

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