Power of Punctuation

Samples of thank you letters using the same words but with different punctuation (and hence very different meanings!)

Punctuation and thank you letters

The BBC online Magazine recently ran a competition to write a thank you letter with two meanings. Entrants had to use the same words – or words that sound the same – but change the punctuation. The five winningletters can be seen by clicking here.

These letters will make a very useful resource for teaching:

Ws/E3.3 – Use punctuation correctly (e.g. capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks) and

Rs/E3.3 – Use punctuation and capitalisation to aid understanding.

You could even run your own competition for your learners!