Sentence examples for put in a comma from inspiring English sources

He was very kind, explaining, just as Salter had, that rules are rules but if something misreads you put in a comma.

By Mary Norris July 30 , 2015Salter, pictured here in 2013, believed that rules are rules but if something misreads you put in a comma.

My job involves commissioning and editing our columnists, and putting in and removing commas in roughly equal measure.

Thus, in modern journalistic language the word is often put in inverted commas, a phrase is added such as "what has been called", "as it is termed" and so on, or a complete gloss is provided.

Once a woman who "always put in the commas," she describes how, in the course of a month, she "went from using a refined language, attentive to the feelings of others, to a sarcastic way of expressing myself, punctuated by coarse laughter.

They suggest, for example, that because the statue celebrates diversity – a word they put in inverted commas, as though it isn't real – it will be covered in graffiti in no time at all".

People who put in superfluous commas, thus making 'moronic sentences', are 'yobs' who cause 'complete semantic chaos'.

This is a common mistake: sometimes, people will see a long sentence and put in commas to "break it up" even if the sentence is grammatical without them.

Working toward lucidity I put in or removed commas, checked spelling, sometimes but rarely cut out repetitious words or phrases which I felt sure were accidental rather than intentional or for phonetic or poetic effect.

The responses quoted verbatim have been put in single inverted commas in the results.

Put in commas, these things, extra words.