Sentence examples for place a comma from inspiring English sources

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But if you think I'm agitating for a return to the days when children crammed grammar into their minds under the threat of genuine physical violence if they failed to correctly place a comma, you are wrong.

And although Wood finds it harder to place a comma accurately than play a mean riff, his citations of Cyrano de Bergerac and Emile Zola, his thrill at seeing the Rembrandts in St Petersburg and seriousness about his own studies of ballerinas at Covent Garden make him nobody's fool.

Do not place a comma before the volume number or before any parentheses.

This situation is exacerbated by the lack of punctuation in early classical Chinese: no periods, colons, semi-colons, dashes, commas, or parentheses were inserted into texts until much later, and both then and now you can get very different readings of a text depending on where you place a comma and/or a period (for example: "John thought Marsha was a fool"; "John, thought Marsha, was a fool").

In your mind, place a comma after the word "that".

Place a comma between the two.

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If there's no said, only an action, then there's a period in place of a comma in the closing quotation mark.

It is indeed chilling to think that we may continue to lose tens of thousands of people from gunfire each year because of the interpretation given to the placing of a comma hundreds of years ago.

The point where a writer places a single comma can be crucial to the meaning of a scene, a chapter or an entire book.

Place the last name, a comma, and a first name.

A comma placed near a music note increases its duration by one aksharakala and a semicolon by two.

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