Yes, so true.

What about making up some sentences that can be read in two different ways, depending on where the punctuation is placed?

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I love punctuation. Eats, Shoots & Leaves is one of my favourite books, and it deals with this very topic. Here is my attempt at correcting your post:

Punctuation: A Good Thing

Wow (Exclamation Point)!

What would our writing be like without punctuation? You wouldn’t be able to read words in sentence form or tell if the sentence was sad, excited, scared, nervous, or a command. If you look at it, punctuation gives a good sense of order to both narratives and expositories. So, instead of, “She rushed to the mall. I know she loves to shop,” which is a strong sentence with incorrect punctuation, use, ”She rushed to the mall. I know she loves to shop.” The bottom line is that looking at punctuation as something not tedious and annoying can truly fix up your writing! Poor punctuation and good punctuation are like night and day!

I hope that I managed to correct this post for you. I have added your post to My Favourites, and I’m going to use it with my Grade 1 class to teach about conventions. Thanks for the great lesson idea!

Aviva

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What a nice post. You made me want to know more about the history of punctuation. I thought you might find the entry at wikipedia, interesting.

http://ilnk.me/5ca

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Hello from Ontario, Canada.

What an interesting post, Julia. You have a pretty good idea about the importance of punctuation and I enjoyed reading it. On my bookshelf at work, I have the book “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” which is dedicated to the use of punctuation.

I’ll start off the editing of your blog post. I think the first edit should be to add a question mark between “punctuation” and “you”. That would make the first sentence of your post read:

What would our writing be like without punctuation?

Who’s next?

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Hi Julia,
Nice post! My 5th graders will like
this on Monday. We just explored the 14 common elements of punctuation in english grammar. How many can you name?
Answers here: http://is.gd/4K9eb

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Pretend that punctuation is like bones to the human body. Without bones,you cannot stand up! Always remember,PUNCTUATION!!!!!!!!

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julia, i loved your post. punctuation really is very important to our lives! keep up the good posts!

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I think punctuation is important because without periods,exclamation points,and question marks,every sentence in the world would never end and that would be bad!

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Julia,
Great post, punctuation is perhaps the most important thing for the composition of a sentence. Even in my high school and university english classes, we did / are doing work on punctuation. It simply makes or breaks a sentence.

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nice post yourright punctuation is very important

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TOO WRIGHT!!![tee-hee]That is the way to go

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