Sentence examples for changing a comma from inspiring English sources

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I didn't even suggest changing a comma".

The two systems could operate in parallel "without changing a comma" in patent law, he said.

But then, even if I'd suggested just changing a comma, there would be a pause.

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(Greenblatt, a skilled, close reader, notes that the clerk has in one draft of the sketch quietly added a comma, changing the meaning: "No, Without Right").

"I don't support changing one damn comma of the 'Stand Your Ground' law," Gaetz told the newspaper on Friday.

Gaetz, whom Weatherford appointed as chair of the "Stand Your Ground" hearings, has also said that he doesn't support changing "one damn comma" of the law.

If Brenton's Galileo has (as I would guess) the largest number of individual words in any translation, Hare's probably has the fewest, but organised in the largest number of sentences: breaking up Brecht's, changing commas to exclamation marks and full stops to question marks, punctuated by staccato "hows", "whos" and "whys".

Use a comma instead.

A comma is pronounced Eek.

"A comma," she said slowly.

I wouldn't have a comma!

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