Sentence examples for comma more from inspiring English sources

No one cherishes a well-placed comma more than we do — or so we thought, until we came across the "typo vigilantes".

By Ligaya Mishan August 25, 2008 No one cherishes a well-placed comma more than we do — or so we thought, until we came across the "typo vigilantes".

Examples: "the dance," "the novel," "the work," "the film," etc. (Note: Some researchers believe Influenza H59 to be a strain of Influenza T24, which causes Nigel-Clive Syndrome, a diagnosis given to patients who use the phrase "inverted commas" more than once in a seven-day period or who habitually refer to all social gatherings as "drinks parties").

It is sprinkled throughout the book as copiously as commas, more than 200 times.

After two weeks of daily study, daily practice and daily performance, you will have earned the right to say "My posture has improved and I look less like a comma and more like an exclamation mark.

My 22-year-old son, who left the house to visit a friend 72 hours ago and hasn't been in touch since, picks this moment to leap out from behind a bush, tell me off for not being home (he lost his last set of keys) and ask to "borrow" (never have inverted commas been more appropriate) £2 to buy some Kentucky Fried Chicken.

The most important field is "MRT;" the MRT-enabled routers will insert their IP addresses into this field delimited with commas if more than one MRT-enabled router found.

They're the ones that would make sense with a coordinating conjunction between them, namely "and". So our first example gets commas because more than one "and" would work well in their place: "He was a nice and respectful and polite and pleasant man". Our second example would not work so well if you replaced the commas with "ands": He wore a light and yellow and collared shirt.

By adopting the serial comma, we have more energy to devote to sprinkling in commas elsewhere.

To this reader, the comma also seems more likely to be correct for style-guide reasons.

They will forensically examine every dot and comma, and the more than 2m words between them, to ensure that those they criticise – and they should be many – will not be able to answer back.