Today, Friday, September 24, 2010, is National Punctuation Day! So let’s have some fun by seeing how punctuation can change things – along with a short Quiz and Poll, too!
What a simple comma can do:
Let’s eat, mommy.
Let’s eat mommy.
Which may have inspired that hungry, homicidal panda best-seller "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"
Giant moving sale Friday!
... Or you have to wonder why that behemoth down the block is leaving:
Giant moving! Sale Friday.
And of course that all time "he said – she said" favorite:
A woman, without her man, is nothing.
A woman: without her, man is nothing.
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