This will start out boring for non-punctuation-lovers, but then I’ll quote Robert Frost, which is always a great benefit to society. So slog through the boring part to get to the poetry and my explanation of how Frost shows how important it is to “know the rules, then break them.”…
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COMMAS – The Traffic Cops of Sentence Meaning Punctuation’s main purpose is to signal to the reader what parts of the sentence go together. And more complicated information leads to complicated sentences! So be sure and go over your paper looking for sentence problems. Fixing those will help you communicate more…
Sometimes writers are told, “Put a comma in when you pause.” We do tend to pause at the end of an element like this, but some of us also pause in other places too! But remember Christopher Walken, who speaks… very… slowly. He pauses so much if he put a…