6 funny errors for National Punctuation Day

Thursday, September 24 is National Punctuation Day, a day designed to promote a crucial aspect of grammar. When a sentence lacks proper punctuation, the resulting change in meaning can be confusing, and often very funny.

Here are 6 amusing punctuation mistakes that are more common than you think:

1. Because of the exclamation mark's improper placement, this product took on a whole new meaning.

2. This magazine cover is believed to be fake, but it still illustrates what a lack of commas can do to a sentence.

3. The clubbing of seals is a serious issue, but this sentence became not-so-serious due to an unnecessary comma.

4.

A period would have saved this hotel from remembering the wrong group of people.

5. A comma would have made all the difference here.

6. And in this example, proper punctuation could have saved a family member.

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