Even after I made a writing manual for students that contained thousands of these rules, I was still manually circling every single comma error, and I was grading rewrites at 2 am every weekend.
A common comma error is to set off the beginning of the modifier with a comma, but not the end.
This is another common comma error, but don't be fooled: you only need to use a comma with the person's name if the phrase serves as a non-restrictive modifier.
But for a bleary Sunday midday filled with people recalling serial-comma debates, error-prone writers and the great semicolon genocide of 2002, I think one of the large and bustling Congee Village restaurants, either on Allen Street or the Bowery, might answer: Chinese food is a copy desk tradition, after all.
Well, when most people think of publishers, it is assumed we deal with perfecting authors' manuscripts: correcting comma faults, fixing spelling errors, etc. Copy editors do precisely these tasks, which are so critical to good publishing.
Another feature allows users to pass in a specific quote character (or parse a filing's data without one at all) in order to avoid errors parsing comma-separated values that occasionally appear in filings.
Do not spend your time correcting spelling errors, misplaced commas, or grammar, because most journals pay people to do this once the paper has been accepted.
One common punctuation error is the comma splice.
Unbeknown to each other, the two autodidacts share an allergy to grammatical errors (the concierge considers a misplaced comma an "underhanded attack") and a love of tea and moments of ineffable beauty.
Some readers are especially proud of their ability to figure it out and like to write letters of complaint and, put, a, comma, after, every, word, to show us the error of our ways.
