English Rewind - 6 Minute English: Does punctuation matter?

📻 Does punctuation really matter? Neil and Sophie find out. Find out more while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of 6 Minute English. Do you know how to use punctuation correctly in English? Join the conversation in the comments 👇👇👇

Useful vocabulary:
✔️ stuffy - formal
✔️ stickler - somebody who insists on a certain way of doing a particular thing
✔️ rhetoric - the art of persuasive speaking
✔️ clause - grammatical unit containing a subject and a verb
✔️ sloppy - careless
✔️ irony - using words to mean something that is the opposite of its most usual meaning
✔️ literal - the usual meaning of a word or phrase
✔️ emoticons - facial expressions made out of keyboard characters

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English Rewind is a collection of programmes from the BBC Learning English archive. This episode of 6 Minute English was first published on the BBC Learning English website in September 2010.

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