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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Appropriate Punctuation

Why do you need to use appropriate punctuation including plurals and possessives in your writing?
  

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Hi Anon; Writing is a form of communication. To communicate effectively, we need standards, and these show up as punctuation and grammatical forms. If we didn't have these, there would likely be more misunderstandings.

  • Hi Anon; Writing is a form of communication.
  • To communicate effectively, we need standards, and these show up as punctuation and grammatical forms.
  • If we didn't have these, there would likely be more misunderstandings.
  • Consider this: a woman without her man is lost and this a woman, without her, man is lost
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Hi Anon;
Writing is a form of communication. To communicate effectively, we need standards, and these show up as punctuation and grammatical forms.
If we didn't have these, there would likely be more misunderstandings.

Consider this:

a woman without her man is lost

and this
a woman, without her, man is lost
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I HAVE CHECKED MY GRAMMAR BOOKS BEFORE POSTING

(1) Yes, it would be a good idea to punctuate your writing

correctly because it can help to avoid much confusion.

(2) For example, suppose you wrote this to someone:

My friends parents will be visiting us.

Are you referring to one friend? My friend's parents ....

Are you referring to tw

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