Example sentences for: commas

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

  • 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.

  • ) Two years ago, the culture ministers of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland agreed to simplify the German language--among other things, by reducing the rules governing the use of commas from 52 to nine, reducing the number of spelling rules from 212 to 112, and performing Teutonic enhancement on certain foreign loanwords.

  • I found neither, nor did I find the common editorial term serial commas in the Index, which seems a little thin.

  • You mean you're correcting it, with commas and semicolons?

  • He found misplacement problems, mistakes in parallel structures, improper use of commas, wrong or missing prepositions, incorrect use of reflexive verbs, etc. “The Census Bureau,” he wrote, “has had 10 long years to get its forms straight.”


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