The importance of punctuation

Love yours too Lucca so funny! And Espee I’ve saved that one for future use.
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I have an elderly friend whose mind is not as sharp these days but she still loves this kind of thing and delights in forwarding them. Here is another she sent.

Esspee

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I do like that, Espee.

🥂 Cheers!

Some very good examples! Now where did I put that Oxford comma......

Hi Marydoll sometimes you want to contribute but don't have enough time to write an explanation.

I’m definitely a pedant, fully paid up. These are hilarious, thankyou all. I’m like Marydoll, I check my posts and cross my fingers!

'This door is alarmed' on the door at Tesco. Some wag added 'but the window is scared of nothing'

Both my children have been known to 'correct' their friends' Facebook posts. On one occasion after such a correction DD wrote " Sorry! I was raised by the grammar police!"
So that would be me I guess!

Not a grammar post, just amusing. Poster outside the local chapel, ‘Jesus Saves’ and somebody had added ‘with the Abbey National.’

Mollygo

It’s like this
I’m hungry!
Let’s eat, Grandma.
Or
I’m hungry,
Let’s eat Grandma.

I have a mug with that on 🤣

:-)

Oh I'm with you on this one. My grammar is far from perfect, but separating up a sentence with commas, then ending them with a full stop is basic taught English, ins't it??? I always read and edit my FB, WhatsApp and emails before I send them.

Owing to the weather there was no body at the funeral
Owing to the weather there was nobody at the funeral

seen daubed on a warehouse wall in 1970s London:
Ireland for the Irish !

underneath had been added later:
and Peckham for the peckish !

sign seen in church hall kitchen:

after rinsing milk bottles
will ladies please stand upside down in sink.

What is this thing called love?
What is THIS thing called, love?
What is this THING called, love?

welbeck

seen daubed on a warehouse wall in 1970s London:
Ireland for the Irish !

underneath had been added later:
and Peckham for the peckish !

This reminds me of the age-old graffiti artist who wrote under the sign to "Felixstowe for the Continent" ....

wait for it


...."And Frinton for the Incontinent"

Whoops - I've done one myself now. Obviously the writer was not age-old. The story is.

John had had had where James had had had had had had had had the teachers approval

Can anyone who hasn't seen it before punctuate the above so that it makes sense?

Or even
King Charles walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off.

Ilikeflowers

Oh I'm with you on this one. My grammar is far from perfect, but separating up a sentence with commas, then ending them with a full stop is basic taught English, ins't it??? I always read and edit my FB, WhatsApp and emails before I send them.

😅

Danger, men at work.

Wish I could find the birthday card once sent by a fellow-pedant sister:

Woman introducing one man to another, ‘You’ll like Simon - he’s an unsufferable pedant, too.’

Mollygo

Or even
King Charles walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off.

That took me a minute to work out 😀