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Commas save lives.
For example, observe the difference between these two sentences.
Let's eat Grandpa!
Let's eat, Grandpa!
Perhaps we can use this to illustrate the need for proper punctuation usage to new members of this forum?
PedOncoDoc
11-20-2009, 12:43
...We can encourage the proper use of spaces. For example:
Foreign students exchange
Foreign student sexchange
BIG Difference. :D
No! Don't! Stop!
No don't! Stop!
No! Don't stop.....
greenberetTFS
11-20-2009, 13:58
Commas save lives.
For example, observe the difference between these two sentences.
Let's eat Grandpa!
Let's eat, Grandpa!
Perhaps we can use this to illustrate the need for proper punctuation usage to new members of this forum?
DM,
Punctuation,We don't need any "stinkin punctuation"..................;)
Big Teddy :munchin
Dozer523
11-20-2009, 14:47
DM,Punctuation,We don't need any "stinkin punctuation"..................;)
Big Teddy :munchin OMG! Grammar. (Be still my heart).
Don't need no stinkin' punctuation? Did YOU SAY, "We don't need no stinkin' punctuation?" Teddy, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzPBUGUM7KQ)
Try comma-tizing these,
a) Leonora walked on her head a little higher than usual.
b) The driver managed to escape from the vehicle before it sank and swam to the riverbank.
Then go to the bookstore and purchase Eats, Shoots and Leaves. It's easy to recognize this book. The cover has a panda with a gun. OR, check out this site: http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pdf/teachersguides/eatsshootsleaves.pdf
Teddy, it gets worse . . . here:D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJNnDCOK_gw&feature=related:D
I'm going to stir the pot some...:munchin
Punctuate this sentence: a woman without her man is nothing
PedOncoDoc
11-20-2009, 15:02
Punctuate this sentence: a woman without her man is nothing
As it is the Comedy Zone I'll do both...
A woman - without her, man is nothing. (I took the couch last night, don't need to repeat, so this goes first...:D)
A woman, without her man, is nothing.
greenberetTFS
11-20-2009, 15:29
Thank you Dozer,I'm waiting for the other "school mar'm"Richard, to help finish this English lesson 101................. :rolleyes::eek::p
Big Teddy :munchin
Thank you Dozer,I'm waiting for the other "school mar'm"Richard, to help finish this English lesson 101
Big Teddy :munchin
I think he's possibly a bit...distracted by your avatar. :eek: :D
longrange1947
11-21-2009, 20:09
All this does is remind me why I got booted from The Citadel.
Or is it:
All this does, is remind me why, I got booted from The Citadel. Too many? :D
kimberly
11-21-2009, 21:10
As it is the Comedy Zone I'll do both...
A woman - without her, man is nothing. (I took the couch last night, don't need to repeat, so this goes first...:D)
A woman, without her man, is nothing.
The first one is good.
Dozer523
11-22-2009, 00:22
A woman: without her, man is nothing. (for guys who don't like sleeping on the couch)
A woman without her: man is nothing! (for those women who favor women)
A woman without Herman is nothing. (Lili Munster) Spaces are important, too: "The penis mightier than the sword.")
Try this one:
That that is is that that is not is not that that is not is not that that is and that that is is not that that is not