If you need four or five commas per sentence to keep the clauses straight, consider simplifying.
Five commas here, plus the double-reverse of an "although" followed by a "but".
And for reasons best known to himself, James Lipton, identified here as the host of "Inside the Actors Studio" (no apostrophe!), has been moved, in blurb mode, to declare: "Punc-rock on!" Why are there five commas, two exclamation points and a colon in that sentence?
The big four – comma, semicolon, colon and full stop – were for a long time, and insanely, regarded as precise measurements of a pause: a full stop was worth four commas.
Locally, the phrase captured, with six simple words and one comma, the security consciousness and dread of the times, the "I ♥ NY" of post-9/11 New York City.
Mr. Das Mann, impressed by her kindness and integrity, respected her wish, but then he broke the silence with a single text of one comma.
And just in case the ambition wasn't apparent, here's its 16-word (and one comma) title: I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It.
Pandora put radio on the Internet, but now startups like Spotify and giants like Apple are trying to knock it out of the three comma club.
Eight commas in one sentence!
There are are four commas.
