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Eats(,) Shoots and Leaves

Eats(,) Shoots and Leaves. Eats(,) Shoots and Leaves. A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

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Eats(,) Shoots and Leaves

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  1. Eats(,) Shoots and Leaves

  2. Eats(,) Shoots and Leaves • A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. • "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder. • "I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up." • The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation. • "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves." • So punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death.

  3. The usage of the comma: • After introductory words or phrases. • Parenthetical phrases • Separating two independent clauses, or • Separating a dependent clause from an independent • Separating items in a list; • And so on…

  4. How the comma can change meaning • In this example we will see how the innocent insertion of a comma can, though grammatically correct, change the meaning of a sentence. ,

  5. Example No. 1 • The panda eats shoots and leaves:

  6. Meaning of Example No. 1 • (The panda) eats shoots and leaves. The way this sentence is constructed leaves the reader with the understanding that pandas literally eat bamboo shoots and leaves.

  7. Example No. 2 • Eats, shoots and leaves.

  8. Meaning of Example No. 2 • (The panda) eats, shoots and leaves. The addition of a comma after the word “eat” changes the meaning of the sentence. • The “panda” now becomes the subject of an action rather than a description. • It literally eats something, fires a gun, and exits the restaurant. Fin

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