Punctuation

          Something that many people struggle with is the use of punctuation.  Punctuation is something that can even determine the meaning of a sentence or phrase.  For example, the use of a comma is something that is very important to understand.  When speaking to a person, a comma can save a life.  “Let’s eat grandma.”  What’s wrong here?  Well, first of all, we don’t want to eat grandma, I hope.  The proper way to write this would be, “Let’s eat, grandma.”  This saves grandma’s life by using a comma to change the meaning from literally eating grandma to telling grandma that it’s time to eat.

            Another thing to be aware of is the importance of periods because without periods or even commas sentences like this could become very difficult to follow we won’t know when one idea starts and where another ends therefore it is important to understand periods.  Let’s try that again.  Another thing to be aware of is the importance of periods, because without periods, or even commas, sentences like this could become difficult to follow.  We won’t know when one idea starts and where another ends.  Therefore, it is important to understand periods. 

            Punctuation is very important.  When we utilize it correctly, we are better able to get our ideas across.