Comma

Truss writes of the placement of the period in relation to the quotation marks used often in texts; she describes a “gulf between American usage and our own, with ...American grammarians insisting that, if a sentence ends with a phrase in inverted commas [closing quotation marks], all the terminal punctuation…must come tidily inside the speech marks, even when this doesn’t seem to make sense” (Truss…

(204). The inclusion of commas to disconnect “all except Phineas” indicate that only Phineas does not see and thus, creates evil in the world. Because of his innocence, Phineas is also the only one who does not prepare for this “enemy” for he is unable to see one. A longer, more continuous phrase is then broken by a comma, drawing attention to how this so called enemy never hurts the characters. The following inclusion of a dash creates a longer pause than the previous comma does, but the last…

handed the news article in to assignment bin (ELS20 bin I guess) and it's handed back to me with some feedback and I read that feedback. It would say that I should revise it because I have some errors such as comma splices, or grammar errors and so I back then I wasn't really familiar with comma splices and I didn't know how to fix them, so now I have learned how to fix some of the errors I have made and I think that I have improved on my writing whether it's online or…

necessity of punctuation. She uses a contested Bible verse to illustrate how the misplacing or omission of a comma can completely change the meaning of the work-and by extension, the chief end of man. She also presents the two sides of an argument about the semicolon. Now my initial reaction to bickering about this topic was “wow, these writers are way too passionate about the Franken-child of a comma and a colon.” However, Mrs. Truss then explains the importance and proper uses of a semi-colon,…

problems with that aspect of my writing, so naturally I felt I had a good understanding of it. However, that changed when Mrs.Kelley had a meeting with me about my diagnostic essay. She informed me that my biggest problem with my writing was my use of commas. I was forgetting them or using them in…

with a reference. You will take note of these references utilizing a creator date-page strategy, in which you list the creator's last name, the year of the distribution, and the page number of the data you're referencing. These are all isolated by commas, and are set inside of enclosure taking after your content. The page number is gone before by lower case "p" with a period after…

be a comma after the word “ride” and before “we” in order to correctly grammatically connect the two…

B/B+ grade. I wrote my paragraph on a weight loss goal I had when I was only twelve years old. When I got this paper back, there was a lot of punctuation errors. The biggest error that was consistent was the lack and misuse of commas. In my one paragraph, I had eight comma errors alone. After this paper I worked hard to…

with the mechanics of writing, the paragraph portrayed poor punctuation thus making the sentence incomplete or incorrect. In the first sentence, “Human Immunodeficiency Virus, popularly known as HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system...” a comma is missing between “HIV” and “is” thus making the sentence incorrect. In the fourth sentence, “The magnitude of the stigma has been heightened by lack of education, fear of the virus, as well as the relationships with those who are HIV positive…

passage. O’Brien might be using this technique as a way to evoke, emphasize, and breakup the different settings, ideas, and thoughts he had at the moment. Firstly, he began by explaining the setting, adding a comma, and then relaying his behaviour of being unable to sleep. Then, he adds another comma and ends the sentence with what he was thinking at the time. This pattern where he breaks up different ideas, thoughts, behaviours, and settings in one sentence, could be used…