A doctor told me that a professor gave his class a pop quiz when he was in his final year of medical school. This doctor was conscientious and had breezed through all the questions until the last one.
The question asked for the name of the woman who cleans the lecture hall.
Surely that was some kind of joke. [...]
What a difference a misplaced punctuation mark makes! Consider this classroom scenario.
Teacher: Make a statement from the following sentence by inserting punctuation marks at appropriate places:
“woman without her man is nothing”
Male Student : “Woman, without her man, is nothing!”
Female Student : “Woman! without her, man is nothing.”
See how the meaning of a sentence is changed completely [...]
Recent Comments