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"Comma" in a Sentence (13 examples)
In another paragraph, he put in a comma.
My attitude to the comma is physiological; the more breath I have, the fewer commas I use.
The Oxford comma is awkward, unnecessary, and cannot be carried over to languages other than English.
Tatoeba: Where nothing ruins a passionate night of sentence-making like a poorly placed comma or, even worse, a careless typo.
The word that Mary had, just before the comma, to enrage Tom, was the word "erased".
In my language, the "," is called comma, the ";" is called semicolon, ":" is called colon, "..." are called ellipsis, and this sentence ends with a period.
The Greeks invented the comma, not for their literature but for their actors, to warn them to take a deep breath in preparation of an upcoming long phrase; thus a comma represents a pause.
He looked at me with consternation, saying that he must put a comma somewhere.
The book reviewer who detects a missing comma, immediately feels elevated to the level of the writer.
For an English speaker every comma is to be avoided.
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No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma. In the fifteenth century this punctuation was improved by the famous Aldus Manutius with the typographical art in general; when he gave a better shape to the comma, added the semicolon, and assigned to the former points more proper places.
Commas (Polygonia comma) and Question Marks (Polygonia interrogationis) occur from the Gulf Coast to Canada and west to the Rockies. [...] Question Marks and Commas are handsome butterflies with burnt orange and black markings. [...] On the underside of each hind wing of the Comma is a small, distinctive silver hook that resembles a comma.
Other members of this genus that are frequently encountered in the park are the eastern comma (P. comma) and question mark (P. interrogationis).
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