Example sentences for: commas

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

  • 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).

  • 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?

  • The Times reports that the new curriculum will include a reading list of classic works, and children will be expected to use capital letters and full stops [periods] correctly by the age of seven, commas by 11, apostrophes and speech marks by 13, and colons and semi-colons by 16.

  • A letter to his editor at Grove Press: "I cant possibly go on as a responsible prose artist and also as a believer in the impulses of my own heart and in the beauty of pure spontaneous language if I let editors take my sentences, which are my phrases that I separate by dashes when I 'draw a breath,' each of which pours out to the tune of the whole story its own rhythmic yawp of expostulation, & riddle them with commas, cut them in half, in threes, in fours, ruining the swing ...


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