The Bermondsey factory closed in 1989 but Peek Freans (now comma-less) still take a big bite of the market in Pakistan, where they are baked by the nostalgically named English Biscuit Manufacturers.
At first, I felt that I was lost in a strange, comma-less alternate universe, staring at pages like word jumbles, struggling to find the stories that they contained.
With his colleague Sydney Brenner, Dr. Crick eventually proved, in an experiment of remarkable elegance, that the genetic code was a comma-less, triplet code in which a set of three bases determines an amino acid unit and a string of triplets thereby specifies the full sequence of amino acids in a protein chain.
His sentences are comma-less convoys, articulated only by the Biblical "and": "They'd had their hair cut with sheepshears by an esquilador at the ranch and the backs of their necks above their collars were white as scars and they wore their hats cocked forward on their heads and they looked from side to side as they jogged along as if to challenge the countryside or anything it might hold".
Shepherd estimated that the time of last use of the comma-less code appears to be of the order of 3 billion years ago [65].
Therefore, we considered not a strict comma-less code as proposed by Crick et al. [32] but rather a degenerate RNA code which can be translated in the 1st (RNY), 2nd (NYR), and the 3rd (YRN) reading frames.
Under "Semicolon," the book says, "Its main role is to indicate a separation between two parts of a sentence that is stronger than a comma but less strong than dividing the sentence in two with a full stop….
Who? Who?" c) "'The main role of the semicolon,' he read in his Concise Oxford Dictionary, 'is to mark a grammatical separation that is stronger in effect than a comma but less strong than a full stop.'" d) "The sky was a cold iron-grey, like the underside of a shield".
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Also, you should probably have used a few less commas in that last sentence.
