commas

There are many writers who have an uneasy relationship with commas. This type of punctuation can be tricky to get right. The main job of commas is to separate the less important parts of a sentence from the rest. It is also used to separate things in a list. The comma is there to help the reader mak ...

Commas can be tricky, and most writers will make mistakes with them from time to time. One bit of common wisdom is to put a comma in any part of the sentence where there would normally be a pause, but this can be bad advice. There have been whole books written on just this one subject and we will on ...