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This Women's World Cup banner demonstrates why punctuation is important

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Jun 26th 2015, 10:14 AM 4,695 Views 3 Comments

SOMETIMES, PUNCTUATION CAN make all the difference.

With the FIFA Women’s World Cup taking place in Canada at the moment, signs encouraging the players are inevitable.

And, sure, it’s probably a bit much to expect such signs to have perfect grammar and syntax, but we think you’ll agree that this sign would have benefitted from a simple comma.

A comma would have made all the difference pic.twitter.com/8OGUkaYsYW
— Elizabeth Ammon (@legsidelizzy) June 25, 2015

Source: Elizabeth Ammon/Twitter

*spit take*

Just one comma, lads.

That’s all you had to do.

The Huffington Post said Hozer was British, and was forced to apologise >

Minions are taking over the internet and your life, and people are not amused >

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This Women's World Cup banner demonstrates why punctuation is important

spit take

The Huffington Post said Hozer was British, and was forced to apologise >