Punctuation Marks

Punctuation Marks

A woman without her man is nothing

An English professor wrote THIS on the whiteboard:

“A woman without her man is nothing”
and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.

All the males in the class wrote:
 “A woman, without her man, is nothing”

All the females in the class wrote:
 “A woman: without her, man is nothing”

 Punctuation is powerful!

What is punctuation?

Punctuation isn’t GRAMMAR.
Grammar is all about WORDS. The way they work together.
Punctuation is just a set of marks/squiggles used to make reading easier. Just a way of using marks on the page – or on the screen - to make the text clearer and to make reading easier.

Punctuation marks include

? question mark (Americans call it a question point) 
! exclamation mark 
, comma
 : colon 
. full stop (period in American English)
; semi colon 
“ ” quotation marks
 ‘ ’ inverted commas 
 ¶ The pilcrow