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Jessica Costa gave the example of the sentence "a woman without her man is
nothing." that can be punctuated in 2 ways.

Lynn Truss in her book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" (The Zero Tolerance
Approach to Punctuation" Profile Books Ltd. 2003. ISBN 1-86197-612-7)
gives this and other examples of how punctuation can alter the meaning of a
sentence.

Katz, L. (29 Jun. 2004). Searching for Punctuation. Teachers of English to
speakers of other languages electronic list. TESL-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
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