See to punctuate properly.
In English punctation seems to be the least of one's worries. However if you want to be understood in your own way of thinking, you should see to punctuate properly.
An English teacher wrote these words on the blackboard:
"woman without her man is nothing"
The teacher then asked a male student to punctuate the words correctly.
The boys wrote: "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
The teacher suggested that so many commas be unnecessary; he then asked a girl she make her try.
The girl wrote: "Woman! Without her, man is nothing."
Let's quote Edgar Allan Poe "The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma; it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid."
You can't be too careful with written works.
An English teacher wrote these words on the blackboard:
"woman without her man is nothing"
The teacher then asked a male student to punctuate the words correctly.
The boys wrote: "Woman, without her man, is nothing."
The teacher suggested that so many commas be unnecessary; he then asked a girl she make her try.
The girl wrote: "Woman! Without her, man is nothing."
Let's quote Edgar Allan Poe "The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma; it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid."
You can't be too careful with written works.
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9 May 2009