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It was enough to make me doubt my comma sense.
Whether you subscribe to the old rule or not, I think you'll agree that my comma crown is to die for.
And she started kissing my comma of a snout in full view of the pachyderm, going gently up and down the endless thing with her tough little lips.
"It's what I call my comma: James Carville, comma, Clinton's sex defender, comma," he explains, his hands testing the horseshoe-shaped bristle of graying hair ("My wife made me shave it") behind his ears.
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I got my commas in place, although it's for the reader to decide that, but the point is it was ready when I wrote it.
I would have had a high school diploma, [but] would have never known how to … use my commas, put in periods, capitalize words," she said.
After all, that's what the other commas in a series stand for: "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" A comma preceding "and" is redundant.
It's not that these four extraneous (to my ear) commas diminished my enjoyment of the book, but I did stop and wonder where they came from, the author or the editor, and whether there was any discussion about them.
I could go on, but I've reached my "inverted comma" quota.
"Lamb hotpot" (my inverted commas, £18.50) was a far superior plate of food, but in no way a hotpot.
With the serial comma: My favorite cereals are Cheerios, Raisin Bran, and Shredded Wheat.
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