Sentence examples for use of commas from inspiring English sources

As it happens, the piece with the correction is about the proper use of commas.

However, our intrepid people-counters cannot be counted on for the correct use of commas.

She was a lesbian who quoted Eliot and was terribly knowing about the use of commas.

(The use of commas suggests that "without her man" can be removed from the sentence without changing the meaning).

The joke, of course, is that we are overliberal in our use of commas and ought to be more judicious.

According to these amici, the founders' use of commas reveals that what they really meant to say was "a well-regulated militia... shall not be infringed".

This usage of commas is somewhat similar to using commas to separate items in a series, with one exception - it is incorrect to place a comma after the final adjective.

It may not inspire confidence that this is the site's use of inverted commas, not mine.

Unsurprisingly, the announcement caused some bitterness on Twitter, where it was hard to find anyone who referred to Middleton as a writer without the use of inverted commas.

The use of inverted commas around the phrase "foetal alcohol syndrome" almost implies Simon Jenkins is sceptical about this condition, perhaps implying an invention of fee-hungry lawyers?

As the official historian of MI5, Andrew is no radical, but compare his candour with Stone's slippery "Pinochet was said to have overthrown Chilean democracy" and his shameful use of inverted commas for "tales of 'disappearances', of mass executions".