Comma

Beller’s sentence structure starts out as long sentences.These sentences have a lot of commas and very little quotation marks. An example of a lot of commas is “Everyone was moving in the same direction, orderly, but with an element of panic and, beneath that a nervous energy”(line 1). Later in the story, Beller uses sentence structures differently. He goes from very proper, long, and with a substantial amount of commas to very short choppy sentences.…

GRAMMAR Introduction to Grammar Conventions Conventions can be defined as a series of generally accepted standards for written English. We use these specific conventions so that our writing is more readable and so that our readers can easily discern what we are trying to say. There are four main categories that a convention may fall under: sentence structure, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization. In this chapter you will find information regarding these four conventions, along with…

In the very next second, he heard some faint voices and a bright light in his eyes. He felt excruciating pain in his head. He saw many green people standing next to him. This made no sense to him. He was alright, he knew that he himself saw stitch in his belly. He tried to move his hand. “Where am I?”, he asked As soon as he moved his hand, to find what was going on, the serenity of the place dissolved and everyone was moving and shouting. “How could he be awake” shouted one of the green guys…

naming the source, followed by a comma. Note that the first letter after the quotation marks should be upper case. According to MLA guidelines, if you change the case of a letter from the original, you must indicate this with brackets. APA format doesn't require brackets. Examples: According to Smith, "[W]riting is fun" (215). In Smith's words, " . . . In Smith's view, " . . . Another way to introduce a critic's words is to use a descriptive verb, followed by a comma. Avoid using says unless…

I improved on a lot of things in the elements of writing. It has helped me get a lot of work done and actually being interested in writing papers and learning new ways to improve myself as a writer. Writing papers was never my strong point, I was never very good at it. Papers to me have become very manageable with the help of this class and my teacher. Writing in my opinion, doesn’t just communicate ideas, it generates them. When writing I tend to need help by others because I may not realize my…

Reference 8th Edition and the material that we have gone over in class I can now say that I have much better understanding of using commas. I never really used to know how to use commas very well mainly for the reason that I thought I was using them the right way all the time (I was not always using them correctly). However, even if I cannot catch my mistakes with commas or anything else while I am writing, I have a better chance to catch my mistakes while I am editing. Once again I used to try…

madness. “True! --nervous-- very, very, dreadfully nervous.”(par 1) He uses dashes to show a pause, also to slow down the way the reader reads. Poe also uses commas to create suspense. “ It was wide, wide, open” (par 8). ‘’Now, I say, there came to my ears, a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton.” Using commas helps to show that the narrator is acting guilty and under pressure. Towards the end of the story, Poe starts using periods more often than before. He…

I struggle a lot with understanding when to use, and when not to use commas. I found that I had many errors regarding them, but the most frequent one was comma splices. I tried to link independent clauses together with a comma and without a coordinating conjunction. The grammar lesson in class helped me recognize that I was having this issue. I quickly learned how to correct it. I changed sentences…

controversial essay was the first essay we wrote and the only thing wrong with it was my punctuation because I was missing a lot of commas in my writing. For example, in my second paragraph I wrote “In 2014 a group named the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) formed”, and I need a comma after the year 2014. In a later essay, my proposal, I only forgot one comma, but a new problem arose. I received a fifty percent because according to the rubric, I did not attempt to follow MLA format when I…

The writing I selected was a paper submitted to my history professor detailing the accounts of the 2nd Punic War in Carthage. This was a comment on the fairly powerful passage from “The Punic Wars” by Adrian Goldsworthy, which focused on the conditions and treatments of the slaves in the Punic War. They were given barely enough food to survive, and they made to march many miles. Civilians were very sympathetic to the slaves, but if they tried to feed the slaves, the food would be stolen by the…