Sentence examples for comma that from inspiring English sources

But nowhere in the proposal, however, is there a single comma that would end "too big to fail".

There is what looks like a semicolon after "We hold these truths to be self-evident" — not the comma that appeared in the printed version.

"Why not have some gardens?" This article was amended on 21 January 2016 to move a comma that had been misplaced during the editing process.

But before he signed, he pointedly inserted a single comma that may -- or may not -- have drastically changed the document's meaning.

You have read her book(1), so you know that she is worried about, among other things, a comma, a comma that might have been changed to a period by a printer nearly 240 years ago.

It seems to cry out for a comma that would turn the two words into an expression of Americans' apparent exhaustion with political dynasties: "Why, Jeb?" Clearly, the Super Pac meant "why Jeb?" in the sense of "why should Iowans vote for Jeb?".

Each line must be checked for characters that were not captured correctly, like e's that look like c's, or commas that should be periods.

– then at least a year that remained at all times both feverishly replete and, even after a purely formal exercise of many unnecessary commas that seemed like a good idea several hundred words ago, quiveringly moreish.

"As our fly-by-night heroine, the elfin actress … is … 'infectious'," Alice Jones opines, with inverted commas that made more sense, admittedly, before I replaced the missing bits with dots.

So while a father may not be entitled to take the same pride in his sperm as he does in his kids, it's fair to celebrate the single-minded cellular commas that helped give those children their start.

Do not replace commas that are being used for an appositive with dashes.