Sunday, November 27, 2011

vocabulary.com: Little Commas Make Big Waves

On the importance of punctuation, that commonly neglected area...

4 comments:

  1. Wow. You've made your point in a very interesting, amusingly illustrated way. Just one little example, though, out of many. So you can work on the many interpretations of the following (I'll use just one set of punctuation marks and leave it for you to use brackets or other devices like semi-colons, which is of course the intended idea):

    "We invited Mr Moises, the stripper, his friend, MAP, a mate from Vallecas, and others who had a whale of a time too."

    Why not?

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  2. Free "Teachers Guides from Penguin.com":

    http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/services-shared/teachersguides.html

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  3. The game is easy, but not that easy:
    http://www.savethecomma.com/game/
    Best wishes,
    Carmen

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  4. Happy New Year to you all!
    Regards,

    Have a look at this useful video, please:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXI80TqAMQQ&feature=player_embedded#!

    Carmen Martín

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