Example sentences for: commas

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

  • This work was Parkes' magisterial Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West , a book that at last stripped the cloak of anonymity from the important work of commas, periods, dashes, colons, semicolons, and countless other full- and part-time functionaries.

  • 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?

  • ) 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.

  • Reviewers note that the essays, like the book, are long (97 pages about a cruise-ship voyage, 54 on the Illinois State Fair) and playful ("He trounces words; he pivots on commas; he drops in and out of styles like a vaudevillian who lets the audience watch him change costumes right there on stage," says the Los Angeles Times ' Susan Salter Reynolds).


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