Example sentences for: comma

How can you use “comma” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Because of an ancient Scottish curse, anyone who writes a life of these four historical personages ends up reproducing, word for word and comma for comma, a long-out-of-print biography that they have never even read!"

  • In an On Language column (April 26, 1993), William Safire called for doing away with the serial comma to save a projected 12 billion commas nationwide.

  • On the other hand, it is admissible, as we have already seen, to throw solvers off the scent with an occasional comma in the “wrong” place.

  • In a gem of a little book called The New Well-Tempered Sentence , by K.E. Gordon (Ticknor & Fields, 1993), the author writes that in a series of three or more elements, ... a comma comes before the conjunction-- unless you're a journalist .

  • Read the sentence “Let's eat, children” without the comma and see the difference it makes.


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