✔ Teachers can use this book to help students learn basic concepts of punctuation without the stress and tears.
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Read through your own manuscript and apply the same principle—look for natural pauses. Do you have missing commas? If so, add them. Conversely, if you find a comma where you don’t feel a natural pause occurs, consider removing it
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Without punctuation, everything we write would be susceptible to ambiguity and misinterpretation. Even when punctuation is used, but it is used incorrectly, readers are at risk of serious misunderstandings.
b1286611978has quoted2 years ago
The lowly commas, periods, and other marks inserted into your sentences are like road signs; without them, readers would get lost in a confusing jumble of words.