Comments on: To Comma, or Not to Comma (Part 4) https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/06/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-4/ A Blog On Writing Sun, 22 Dec 2024 03:16:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: 🖋 Writing Links Round Up 8/15 – B. Shaun Smith https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/06/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-4/#comment-154168 Mon, 15 Aug 2022 19:16:36 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=45686#comment-154168 […] To Comma, or Not to Comma (Part 4) […]

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/06/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-4/#comment-153660 Sun, 19 Jun 2022 16:14:02 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=45686#comment-153660 I have to admit it, I mostly do commas by ear...and you have taught me that's a bad plan! I really really appreciate this series!

I struggle with things like commas with dates and when to set off the name. Like, "A purple swamp creature, Commaroguius, terrorized all the visitors to Grammar Lake." I know to set off the name there. But sometimes (usually in dialogue) the name comma rules get wonky.

So, I just sigh and say, "That's why you hire a proofreader."

]]> By: Lori Freeland https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/06/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-4/#comment-153655 Sun, 19 Jun 2022 05:42:55 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=45686#comment-153655 In reply to davydwriter.

You are welcome! And that's interesting about poetry. That's one genre I don't edit.

]]> By: Lori Freeland https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/06/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-4/#comment-153654 Sun, 19 Jun 2022 05:41:06 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=45686#comment-153654 In reply to dholcomb1.

Yes, you're lucky!

]]> By: davydwriter https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/06/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-4/#comment-153652 Sat, 18 Jun 2022 05:11:48 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=45686#comment-153652 In a separate context, the use of a comma can be different in poetry. I will throw in a comma when I want a reader to pause, or when I want a sudden jar in the flow of a poem. Thank you for this guidance. It will help some of the bad habits I've taken into my fiction writing.

]]> By: dholcomb1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/06/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-4/#comment-153651 Sat, 18 Jun 2022 05:08:03 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=45686#comment-153651 I'm so glad I learned these rules in grade school.

denise

]]> By: Lori Freeland https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/06/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-4/#comment-153649 Sat, 18 Jun 2022 03:14:50 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=45686#comment-153649 In reply to pameladbeverly.

That is interesting. And I did not know that. So I learned something new today too!

]]> By: Lori Freeland https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/06/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-4/#comment-153648 Sat, 18 Jun 2022 03:14:13 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=45686#comment-153648 In reply to pameladbeverly.

😊😊😊

]]> By: Lori Freeland https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/06/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-4/#comment-153647 Sat, 18 Jun 2022 03:13:21 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=45686#comment-153647 In reply to Karen DeBonis.

You're welcome!

]]> By: pameladbeverly https://writersinthestormblog.com/2022/06/to-comma-or-not-to-comma-part-4/#comment-153646 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 20:31:52 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=45686#comment-153646 I meant to write that we still use two spaces after a sentence in the government.

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