The Power of Punctuation

An English professor wrote the words: “A woman without her man is nothing” on the chalkboard and asked his students to punctuate it correctly.

All of the males in the class wrote: “A woman, without her man, is nothing.”

All the females in the class wrote: “A woman: without her, man is nothing.”

Vocabulary Help

• without – sem
• nothing – nada
• write (write, wrote, written) – escrever
• chalkboard – quadro negro
• male – homem, macho
• females – mulheres, fêmeas