Writing Gooder » punctuate this http://www.writinggooder.com A blog for young writers and everyone else from YoungWritersSociety.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:00:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Punctuate This! http://www.writinggooder.com/2008/07/28/punctuate-this/ http://www.writinggooder.com/2008/07/28/punctuate-this/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:00:30 +0000 Nate http://www.writinggooder.com/?p=1186 I found this recently: a story about how a professor gave his students the sentence, “A woman without her man is nothing.”  I doubt the story is actually true, but as the story goes, the female students and male students had two different ways of punctuating it.

The men in the class wrote it as: “A woman, without her man, is nothing.”

But the women wrote: “A woman: without her, man is nothing.”

Interesting how punctuation can change the meaning of just one sentence, eh?  Just a few grammatical marks can turn the sentence into something absolutely different.

So I’m going to kick off something new: every week I’ll give a new sentence for people to punctuate.  You can add periods, commas, capitalize words, whatever.  So here’s the first:

Among dogs ducks meet discussing quarters to a mouse on wheels

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