Punctuation matters!

1. An English professor wrote a sentence on the blackboard and asked his class to punctuate the statement.
The statement was: Woman without her man is nothing.

All the boys punctuated it as: Woman, without her man, is nothing.

All the girls punctuated it as: Woman! Without her, man is nothing.

2. A judge was to write down the sentence for a convict. His verdict was: Pardon impossible to be sent to Siberia.

Look at the two ways this sentence can be punctuated and the meaning becomes diametrically opposite!

Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia.
Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia.

3. A mother took her sick child to the pediatrician. The doctor examined the child and found out that the child had severe right ear infection. So he wrote out a prescription for the child. He wrote on the prescription: Put three drops of the ear drops in the right ear every 4 hours. He had abbreviated the right as R. After a few days the doctor met the mother at a social event. He asked her how the child was doing. The mother replied that the child was feeling sick still and added to that the child now had an oily backside. The doctor was surprised and asked to see the medicine container. The doctor was shocked to see what the pharmacist had written on the label:

Put three drops in the R EAR every four hours.

The mother had followed the instructions to the T!!

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