Why is punctuation so important?
- Ambiguity: Women without her man is a savage.
- A comma can radically change the meaning of a sentence. Who is the savage?
- Women, without her man, is a savage.
- Women: without her, man is a savage.
- I would like to thank my parents Sinead O’Connor and the Pope.
- Did Sinead O’Connor and the Pope have a baby?!? How many people are being thanked?
- I would like to thank my parents, Sinead O’Connor, and the Pope.
- To build a tree house you need an imaginative child and four support beams all nailed directly to the tree.
- What is happening to this baby? How do you build a tree house?
To build a tree house you need an imaginative child, and four support beams all nailed directly to the tree.