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Example sentences for: comma

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In the chapter on Style, I expected to find under punctuation a fuller treatment than that afforded: I looked in vain for two things, the wisdom offered regarding serial commas (whether or when the second comma is required or desirable in A, B, and C, and what the position is on the use of a comma following etc. in the middle of a sentence).
The gene information is stored in tables created in Microsoft Excel and must contain these columns (comma separated) in the following order: probe set or spot identifier, accession number, UniGene ID, gene title, and map location.
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 .
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.
There is a lovely example in Fowler about government , which shows how slack political phraseology can turn out to be (we just dropped a False Scent --no comma between the qualifiers of phraseology -- see below) a black beast in any era; obviously the beast was rampaging even in Fowler's golden days.