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to commas
noun
The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
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A pair of dashes are an alternative to commas or brackets for parenthesis when you want to draw the reader's attention to something surprising or unusual.
An almost pathological aversion to commas makes his book much harder reading than it should be, and the amount of repetition suggests that he assumes no great intelligence in his readers.
Spaces should be used as a thousands separator in contrast to commas or periods (1,000,000 or 1.000.000) to reduce confusion resulting from the variation between these forms in different countries.
For an in-text citation you will turn the author's name around and change most of the periods to commas.
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An impassioned guide to comma-usage.
The author was prone to comma splices and garbled exposition.
Last month, GM bought Cruise, a startup similar to Comma, for about $1bn.
For a week or so before the press date, we met each day and went through galleys from comma to comma, with an extra beat for a semicolon.
The measurements are written to comma-separated value (CSV) file for general usage in statistical software.
Upon acquisition of data, we exported data for each walk to comma-separated value format and imported this information to a mathematical computation program.
The original data files recorded at the SD card (extension *.vbo) opened using Vbox Tools and then were simply converted to comma delimited files (extension *.csv).
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