The Importance of Punctuation Marks

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Mr. Dwight was conducting a lecture on the proper use of punctuation marks. To ensure that his students have effectively learned a thing or two from his lessons, he conducted a brief exercise for them. He went to the blackboard and wrote, “Woman without her man is useless”. He called on two students – a boy and a girl – to place the proper punctuations in the given phrase.

To his amusement, the two had different answers. The boy wrote, “Woman, without her man, is useless”. Whereas, the girl wrote, “Woman! Without her, man is useless.”
 

Chirimoya

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A friend who eschews apostrophes and punctuation in his Facebook posts recently posted: "Getting married kids on the way"

My first interpretation was that they were getting married because his girlfriend was pregnant, which was strange because she is about 50. Eventually, I realised he meant that their children from their previous marriages were flying over to attend the wedding.