English Rewind - 6 Minute English: Does punctuation matter?

???? Does punctuation really matter? Neil and Sophie find out. Find out more while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of 6 Minute English. Do you know how to use punctuation correctly in English? Join the conversation in the comments ????????????

Useful vocabulary:
✔️ stuffy - formal
✔️ stickler - somebody who insists on a certain way of doing a particular thing
✔️ rhetoric - the art of persuasive speaking
✔️ clause - grammatical unit containing a subject and a verb
✔️ sloppy - careless
✔️ irony - using words to mean something that is the opposite of its most usual meaning
✔️ literal - the usual meaning of a word or phrase
✔️ emoticons - facial expressions made out of keyboard characters

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English Rewind is a collection of programmes from the BBC Learning English archive. This episode of 6 Minute English was first published on the BBC Learning English website in September 2010.

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