Punctuation saves lives. Seriously.

 

And of course if you can write well.

'Cause the comma stands alone,

An 's' is welcomed on the board.

/aberrated "poem" from my even more aberrated moments/

Sorry guys, I have an awful sense of humour but sometimes I can't stand if I see something which is grammatically incorrect. It's just... obvious, you know. Or only for me? I mean the subject-verb agreement.

Today was the big day of choices, I'd say: English Linguistics with some specific translation ( I don't know its proper name :/ ). Fine! However, everyone (or almost everyone) was applied to the field of study they wanted to be in.

Now I'd like to make this post a bit more interesting by sharing my thoughts on punctuation. I reckon that you need to reach a certain level (let's say B1 or B2) in order to become familiar with its "rules". Because it has some rules which are sometimes hard to follow even for advanced learners as well, and the keyword is: sometimes. I have some useful tips on how to write well but it's in Hungarian so it doesn't help a lot when it's about English. Moreover, the two languages have a different punctuation system and it would be crucial to mix them or use them at the same time.

For example, when I have a look into my Oxford dictionary I always turn the pages to the punctuation part. Why? Because I still don't know how to use the semi-colon, the dash or the hyphen and I often fall into the "comma-coma" (my RWS teacher, Joe calls it this) which is not good, I'd say. There's one thing which drives me crazy: the marks have two different names according to the British English (BrE) or the American English (AmE) versions which is enough for me to get confused. And because I'm such a lazy girl I sometimes don't have the passion to read (or write) and this has to be changed as soon as possible.

Maybe poets and authors don't have so much problems in connection with punctuation, not to mention that one comma (if it's in the right place) can CHANGE the meaning of a sentence. So this is true for daily life situations, like in the picture (but the  word "save" needs an 's').

Practice always help but it's hard to start making the changes...

P.S.: The second poll is just a joke. Voting is not compulsory