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Emphasise instruction to student for improving ungrammatical essay? (9)

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punctuate

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'emphasise' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for punctuate that I've seen before include "Insert full stops, commas, etc in (text)" , "Regularly interrupt" , "Add marks to text" , "Interrupt periodically" .)

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