Can minor mistakes in punctuation marks make a difference to a sentence?

@suchi60 (912)
India
September 17, 2009 10:25pm CST
I wrote an online test and passed the language test, but flunked in the grammar. The reason was because of some minor mistakes in punctuation marks. When I look back, I can see that there were some mistakes in my sentences, but when you're writing to a tight deadline, these things do happen, and it did. What's your say in this?
2 responses
lynnemg
@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
18 Sep 09
Yes, punctuation can make a big differnce. For example, a statement can easily be turned into a question if you accidentally put a question mark at the end rather than a period.
suchi60
@suchi60 (912)
• India
18 Sep 09
Thats right, but the kind I mistakes I made were in commas. It so happens that when I'm writing a sentence, I normally try to type as fast as I think and this leads to such problems where I make silly mistakes. Anyway thanks for the post.
amyson
@amyson (3498)
• Philippines
18 Sep 09
yes i can say punctuation is very important.comma,and other.another thing exclamation point is something equivalent to shout.so do not use it frequently.good day.
suchi60
@suchi60 (912)
• India
18 Sep 09
Thanks for the claification amy. It is educating. Thanks for the post too.
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