[Velvet]

Yes, a comma was the case of life or death. Empress Maria Feodorovna, historically saved a man’s life by changing a comma. When she took the comma out of the Tzar’s orders it meant the man must be pardoned. With the comma in (as the Tzar intended) the order meant that pardoning the man was impossible, he must be executed. Tzars ruled by divine privilege, they were accountable to no one.

‘A woman, without her man, is nothing.’ The females in the class wrote: ‘A woman: without her, man is nothing.’ Punctuation can be powerful.