Example sentences for: comma

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

  • A chief criticism of this book, in particular, is that the adjectives are jumbled together in no discernible order or, as mentioned, with punctuation between (except for a serial comma).

  • It is worth noting that the first element of clue M. consists of the four words On reflection the parts . The comma, correctly inserted between reflection and the , may mislead, but such punctuational conflicts are considered perfectly legitimate, or even a piquant little feature.

  • I wrote to him then and thereafter, giving examples from the Times of reading comprehension impeded by lack of the comma.

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

  • As the standards slip in the marketplace, so they move on down the slippery slope in the education place, with older, wiser, more dedicated, better educated teachers gradually but ineluctably replaced by those who have not a scintilla of enlightenment regarding the meaning of contrary-to-fact condition, comma splice , or double genitive .


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