Sentence examples for comma usage from inspiring English sources

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We're going to start small, with an elementary lesson on comma usage.

As Sturgill makes clear in her 14 points of comma usage, there's more to it — and not just grammatically.

By Mary Norris April 8, 2015 This week's episode is all about another facet of comma usage: How do you know whether to set something off in commas?

This week's episode is all about another facet of comma usage: How do you know whether to set something off in commas?

In the first episode of our new video series, we're going to start small, with an elementary lesson on comma usage.

Tarnow is the chief copy editor of Time Out New York, and he includes a grammar round that involves linguistically problematic signs from around the city; a working knowledge of comma usage is recommended.

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An impassioned guide to comma-usage.

I've been an English teacher at a secondary school for twelve years and have struggled with teaching students the comma and its usage.

This usage of commas is somewhat similar to using commas to separate items in a series, with one exception - it is incorrect to place a comma after the final adjective.

We found the first mention of it in the Cambridge University Almanac of 1852, where the word blazer is in inverted commas; you see its usage evolve over the next 10 years.

Only 3/70 (4%) websites provided raw data export, in standard data formats (eg. Comma Separated Values) for further usage.

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