Sentence examples for comma from from inspiring English sources

He had the eye of an artist for that fleeting moment that explains everything, requiring less than a phrase, barely a comma from me.

(A friend of mine's toddler had taken to singing, "Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?" from the backseat of the car).

Root-mean squared error (RMSE) obtained on raw data differ only in the second digit after comma from the RMSEs presented in Table 1 for all methods, except for the extrapolation.

Even for the extrapolation method, there was only one case when RMSE based on the raw data differed in the first digit after comma from the results presented in Table 1 and was substantial in relative terms: females, life expectancy at birth range 40 50 years, a = 85 (RMSE on the smoothed death rates, 0.04; RMSE on the raw data, 0.16).

One-word introductory elements include words such as no, yes, and well, and are separated by a comma from the main clause when they begin a sentence.

Joe Queenan's article about the film Contagion, and its habit of missing commas from location captions (London England, or Minneapolis Minnesota) was written light-heartedly.

In short, there is little broad enthusiasm to erase the inverted commas from the term "fast-track .These fast-track .Theseerstandable, but some are exaggerated, wrong-headed, or both.

For instance, here is a sentence, chock-full of commas, from this magazine, that was quoted by Ben Yagoda in an online article for the Times: "Before Atwater died, of brain cancer, in 1991, he expressed regret".

Though we recognize the grave, gay waltz of exceptions and commas from all of Henry's late writing, confident declarative sentences shine through from the start: "To knock at the door of the past was in a word to see it open to me quite wide — to see the world within begin to 'compose' with a grace of its own round the primary figure, see it people itself vividly and insistently".

Though we recognize the grave, gay waltz of exceptions and commas from all of Henry's late writing, confident declarative sentences shine through from the start: "To knock at the door of the past was in a word to see it open to me quite wide to see the world within begin to 'compose' with a grace of its own round the primary figure, see it people itself vividly and insistently".

Planted on the 1970's red plastic bench he calls home, and surrounded by stacks of newspapers and magazines, Nasseri, also known as Alfred or "Sir, Alfred" (title and comma appropriated from a mistake in a letter from British immigration), has organized his life's belongings into a half-dozen Lufthansa cargo boxes, various suitcases and unused carry-on luggage.