A woman lands at London Oxford Airport.
She hails a cab and instructs the driver:
'Take me to a place where I can get scrod.'
The beaming cabbie can barely believe his ears:
'That's the first time I've heard that word used
in the pluperfect subjunctive.'
A teacher of English (not the ambiguous 'an English teacher')
writes the sentence:
'A woman without her man is nothing,'
and asks the class to punctuate it.
A male student writes:
'A woman, without her man, is nothing.'
A female student writes:
'A woman: without her, man is nothing.'
PS The male student is doubly wrong
because 'without her man' is not a subordinate clause,
therefore it should not be enclosed within commas.
