Bacon Punctuation: A Sentence about Bacon for Every Use of Punctuation
There are fifteen punctuation marks in the English language, each of which serves a variety of purposes. A couple months ago, I charted each of the fifteen punctuation marks in order of how much each punctuation mark does. As insightful as that may (or may not) have been, that chart didn’t provide an example for all the ways to use punctuation marks.
So my solution? I wrote a sentence for every single way to use each of the punctuation marks. And what better thing to write about in each sentence than America’s favorite food?
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Where was this 15-20 yrs. ago? I just got 8 yrs. of English lessons in 5 minutes.
Don’t judge my use of punctuation. I still have to absorb it all.
Love this! Just one error: in the period section, “i.e.” is used and is not followed by a comma, despite the comma section explaining correct comma usage after “i.e.” and “e.g.” 🙂
Yeesh! Nice catch! I updated the graphic so it is correct now. Thanks!
Is this available for purchase? I’m a middle school English teacher and would love this for my classroom!
I’m working on making a poster version that will be available purchase. The version online is 100 inches tall, which doesn’t work so well when printed 🙂
learned a lot about punctuation reading all sentences with bacon in it.
Your big fat apostrophe near the top of this page looks like a 6 and it should look like a nine. It’s upside-down!
Is there a poster or handout for purchase yet? I’d love to use these and haven’t been able to print them in a good format yet. Thanks!
Thank you very much!
But what about the sign “/” and “@”? I would appreciate it much if you could give us explanations and examples as well 😀