Example sentences for: comma

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

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • Unfortunate is the omission of a comma to set apart daddy as a term of address in the illustration for heinie (American for `bottom'):

  • 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.


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