Sentence examples for bad punctuation from inspiring English sources

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BEANE -- Misspellings and bad punctuation.

I guess people can make fun of bad punctuation when it shows up in respectable publications.

Elaine, on "Seinfeld" — vain, callous, eager to dump a boyfriend for bad punctuation — was an unheralded pioneer for the dark and twisty female characters currently populating television.

E-mail has long been blamed for reducing the quality of our communication to fragments filled with abbreviations and bad punctuation.

And unlike sixth form, instead of taking marks off me for bad punctuation, grammar and spelling, the Guardian correct it for me and make it look as if I'm the sort of person that did my homework and was sober, thank you.

Bad punctuation, bad grammar, misspelled words, anything goes.

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From ghosts to banshees: Sarah Palin isn't only incoherent and incompetent and bad at punctuation.

Americans in their young republic were also already going into decline, too: Adams Sherman Hill, a Harvard professor of rhetoric, found "the work of even good scholars disfigured by bad spelling, confusing punctuation, ungrammatical, obscure, ambiguous, or inelegant expressions" in 1879.

"The bad news for punctuation, however," she writes, "is that the age of printing is due to hold its official retirement party next Friday afternoon at half-past five".

Correct misspellings, bad grammar, incorrect punctuation and superfluous emphasis.

Poor spelling, bad grammar, incorrect punctuation and an inadequate command of the English language are obvious indications of a sub-standard copywriter, and should raise alarm bells immediately.

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