Commas    

A panda walks into a restaurant. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then raises a gun and shoots at the other people in the café.

"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter, as the panda goes to the exit. The panda takes out a badly punctuated wildlife book and gives it to the waiter.

"Well, I'm a panda," he says, at the door. "Read what the book says."

The waiter turns to the page about pandas and finds an explanation. "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

                                                                                 -Lynn Truss, author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves

 

 

 

 

  1. explanation and practice
  2. more explanation + practice at the bottom of this page (grammar.ccc.commnet.edu)
  3. challenging practice (chompchomp.com)

 

Workshop resources compiled by Ted Friedenson