Comments on: To Comma, or Not to Comma (Part 1) https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/10/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-1/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 22 Dec 2024 03:33:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: To Comma, or Not to Comma (Part 2) | Writers In The Storm https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/10/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-1/#comment-151263 Fri, 17 Dec 2021 08:28:16 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=43682#comment-151263 […] back to answering the question, to comma, or not to comma? If you missed Part 1, check it out here. To Comma, or Not to Comma. In this section, we’ll cover essential and nonessential information in a sentence and how that […]

]]> By: crbwriter https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/10/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-1/#comment-150599 Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:35:30 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=43682#comment-150599 This guide is a keeper. Please, please talk about comma splices in a future column. They're my fave!

]]> By: Lori Freeland https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/10/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-1/#comment-150596 Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:04:07 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=43682#comment-150596 In reply to dholcomb1.

Thank you ?

]]> By: catdubie https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/10/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-1/#comment-150595 Tue, 12 Oct 2021 05:34:50 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=43682#comment-150595 Thanks for this informative post! And I'm happy to hear that you use the Oxford comma. Many say it isn't necessary, but I need to put it in or it isn't right to me. It still jars me when I read a sentence where it isn't used.

]]> By: dholcomb1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/10/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-1/#comment-150594 Tue, 12 Oct 2021 03:25:57 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=43682#comment-150594 Commas are not my weakness. This a great guide.

denise

]]> By: Lori Freeland https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/10/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-1/#comment-150593 Tue, 12 Oct 2021 02:22:02 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=43682#comment-150593 In reply to Tiffany Yates Martin.

Thank you!

]]> By: Lori Freeland https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/10/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-1/#comment-150592 Tue, 12 Oct 2021 02:21:18 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=43682#comment-150592 In reply to KathleenBaldwin.

That made me laugh. Hugs back to you!

]]> By: Tiffany Yates Martin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/10/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-1/#comment-150590 Mon, 11 Oct 2021 23:21:37 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=43682#comment-150590 Well, this is just damned magnificent. Love this, my fellow word nerd. Sharing!

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/10/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-1/#comment-150588 Mon, 11 Oct 2021 22:13:54 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=43682#comment-150588 In reply to KathleenBaldwin.

"I have never been able to follow the old saw just put a comma in where you breathe. Ha! Because I have asthma." <-- Hahahahaha! I love a good twisted sense of humor. 🙂

]]> By: KathleenBaldwin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2021/10/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-1/#comment-150587 Mon, 11 Oct 2021 22:10:20 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=43682#comment-150587 Wow, Lori! This was helpful. Thank you! And big hug.
I am always fighting with Grammarly over my commas. And admittedly, I am probably wrong. I have never been able to follow the old saw just put a comma in where you breathe. Ha! Because I have asthma. I breathe whenever I run out of air, often in the middle of an otherwise perfect comma-less sentence.

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