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[Tdol's Blog] War against bad punctuation

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03-Apr-2006, 10:56

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[Tdol's Blog] War against bad punctuation

There are plans in the UK to stop awarding GCSEs at grade C or above in English to students who cannot punctuate correctly. Naturally, some have criticised the idea for potentially preventing good students who make careless mistakes from passing....

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