RE: Help me do the comma
April 23, 2015 at 12:08 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2015 at 12:09 pm by Alex K.)
Ben Davis,
do I have to do both 1.) and 2.) in order to be consistent? In my above sentence, putting them before and after the "and" as in
"has a nice flow to it, and, more importantly, that ..."
looks excessive to me
do I have to do both 1.) and 2.) in order to be consistent? In my above sentence, putting them before and after the "and" as in
"has a nice flow to it, and, more importantly, that ..."
looks excessive to me
(April 23, 2015 at 11:48 am)Neimenovic Wrote:(April 23, 2015 at 11:30 am)Jenny A Wrote: Proper usage is helpful when you are, making a formal argument, writing a formal paper, writing to your Aunt May, writing a business letter, or writing to snarky people like me [use a comma between items in a series].
There shouldn't be a comma here
(April 23, 2015 at 11:30 am)Jenny A Wrote: Educated, intellectual, uppity, grammarians [separate lists of adjectives which have a unified meaning with commas] do care about commas, little basement-dwelling posters [but don't separate unrelated adjectives] might not.
Or here
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
