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25 June 2022

9:00 AM

25 June 2022

9:00 AM

We live in a world that seems to have largely abandoned punctuation – those small marks between words that help make sense of a sentence. Text messaging normally contains no punctuation – and in emails (it seems to me) punctuation is being used less and less. Adding to the problem is the apparent failure of the education system to teach punctuation.

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