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Title: Eats ,shoots and leaves.


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Eats ,shoots and leaves.
  • The case of the killer Panda and the comma.

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What do you see here?
  • Write it down.

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What do you see here?
  • Write it down.

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What do you see here?
  • Write it down.

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What is the problem here?
  • The pictures are AMBIGUOUS-they have two things
    happening at the same time.

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What about this sentence?
  • Eats, shoots and leaves.
  • The full story
  • A panda walked into a cafĂ©. He ordered a
    sandwich, ate it, then pulled out a gun and shot
    the waiter. Why? groaned the injured man. The
    panda shrugged, tossed him a badly punctuated
    wildlife manual and walked out. When the waiter
    consulted the book, he found an explanation.
    Panda. Large black and white mammal native to
    China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

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The sentence like the drawings-is also ambiguous.
  • Eats shoots and leaves. Tells you about its
    eating habits.

8
Try this one.
  • By adding commas make this sentence mean the
    opposite.
  • The convict said the judge was mad.

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The Answer.
  • The convict, said the judge, was mad.
  • The convict said the judge was mad.

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Answer.
  • The driver managed to escape from the vehicle
    before it sank and swam to shore.

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Try another.
  • The driver managed to escape from the vehicle
    before it sank ,and swam to shore.
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