I (edit) a photo caption when I saw the phrase "Smith said his kids favorite part of the event was the snow cone truck." I walked over to student photographer who wrote the caption and asked whether Mr. Smith had one child or many.
The photographer wanted to know why. The word "kid" needed an apostrophe, I replied, and where I put that punctuation mark would change the size of Mr. Smith's family.
"Wow," the photographer said. "One punctuation mark can make a big (differ)."
This exchange isn't made up. And the fact that it happened in the same month as National Punctuation Day—which is Sept. 24— (emphasize) the importance of proper use of punctuation.
For National Punctuation Day, my goal is (promote) proper use of commas, semicolons and so on my good example. I will use punctuation in all text (message), never leaving out periods on Twitter.
Jeff Rubin, who founded National Punctuation Day in 2004, wrote that he started National Punctuation Day because of concern about (decline) language skills. He noted that almost 60 percent of incoming college freshmen needed remedial(补救的) English classes (urgent).
Information like that is our anger should be focused. So classroom is a great place to celebrate National Punctuation Day.
