Does punctuation matter?

[Aussie Pete]

Numbers of people take little or no notice of basic grammar rules. Some think that grammar is a little old lady in a retirement home.

In my last job, I had to interpret emails at least once a day from a colleague who had forgotten what a full stop was for. So I emailed a bunch to him just for fun, like so...............................................................................................................................
He returned my full stops by.putting.a.full.stop.after.every.word.

A bit of fun, but there is a point. (Gettit? point?)
Two sentences that could be used in the US election:
"Donald Trump is going great!"
"Donald Trump is going. Great!"

Yes, a full stop does make a difference.

 

[redleghunter]

Does punctuation matter?

Yes!

 

[Darkhorse]

Grammar
Punctuation
Homophones
Spelling
Vocabulary
Verb tense

the list goes on and on...

 

[JackRT]

Accurate communication is important and it cannot be achieved without a command of grammar and vocabulary.

 

[bèlla]

Paragraphs matter too.

~Bella

 

[redleghunter]

Homophones

Careful we have rules here on CF discussing such issues.

 

[Lady Donna Marie]

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[Tra Phull]

God is now here.
God is nowhere.

 

[redleghunter]

When I was a lad in Catholic school, we used “The Elements of Style, by Strunk & White.

The Elements of Style - Wikipedia

 

[Tra Phull]

For centuries, all copies of New Testament books were in Uncials - all upper case Greek letters.

Miniscule came much later, in them, almost every Greek character was lowercase, unless it was the first letter of the first word of a paragraph, or the first letter of a proper name. Koine Greek had no spaces between words, whether Uncial or Miniscule. There is no indefinite article in Koine Greek, this is how JWs get away with "and the Word was
a
god"
In translating John.

I find AUTOCORRECT on this Kindle a real hindrance, and constantly have to 're-correct' what it does, and sometimes don't catch things.

 

[Tra Phull]

One might say "Trump is going great" or "Trump is doing great" - either one.

Trump-bashers would squeal either way.

 

[Tra Phull]

It is important to be as clear as we can be - we must also realize that UNSOPHISTICATED spell-checkers will consider something "okay" if a word is spelled correctly, but IS IN FACT A DIFFERENT WORD from what the writer intended!

 

[redleghunter]

It is important to be as clear as we can be - we must also realize that UNSOPHISTICATED spell-checkers will consider something "okay" if a word is spelled correctly, but IS IN FACT A DIFFERENT WORD from what the writer intended!

Let’s not even mention most of these grammar aids will not correct for passive voice statements.

 

[Tra Phull]

A Greek New Testament that most students would use has SPACES BETWEEN WORDS artificially added, just as CHAPTERS AND VERSES were added - for convenience, centuries later.

 

[Tra Phull]

We are lucky we can communicate at all.

 

[Tra Phull]

I have never studied Hebrew, but it is upside down and backwards.

I did take 4 semesters of undergraduate Greek, but have forgotten much. My once-steel-trap mind is rusting out.

What was I talking about - oh, yeah - let's be clear in what we post.

 

[Aussie Pete]

Yes a full stop does, but so do using the correct wording. When I was in grad school we got marked down for any grammar or spelling errors.

The first correct way this sentence could be used is:
Donald Trump is doing great!

The sentence (Donald Trump is doing. Great!) isn't a complete sentence because it says going which should be doing for starters and it doesn't say where he's going/doing. It cuts off short of being a complete sentence. So if you want to properly use that sentence it would look like this.

Donald Trump is doing, great!

Add the program, grammarly.com, to your computer and it will guide you with correct punctuation/grammar and proper word choice.

*sigh* I stole that from a political advert around 40 years ago. I was just trying to make a point about the use of punctuation and how one full stop can change the meaning of a sentence completely. I detest subscription software so I refuse to use grammarly. It's not even good English! (The word "grammarly", I mean).

 

[Chesterton]

Does punctuation matter!
Yes?

 

[Chesterton]

When I was a lad in Catholic school, we used “The Elements of Style, by Strunk & White.

The Elements of Style - Wikipedia

That's an excellent little book.

 

[Chesterton]

Bob eats shoots and leaves.
Bob eats, shoots, and leaves.