For weeks my sister-in-law, Carol, tried to teach her two young sons punctuation. She knew she'd succeeded when a rather talkative friend of hers visited one day. That night as Carol was putting five-year-old Kevin to bed, he said, “Mom, your friend must not have learned punctuation.†“Why do you say that?†she asked. “Because,†Kevin replied, “she talked with no periods at all.â€Â
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