Here are a couple of great reference pages about comma use.
Terribly Write's Top 5 Comma Errors
Purdue Online Writing Lab Extended Rules for Using Commas
My pet peeves recently—aside from (shoot me now) apostrophes in plurals—are commas between month and year when no date appears and commas between subject and verb.
Wrong: It is not January, 2010.
Right: Okay, it is January 2010, but only if you write it correctly.
Wrong: Being alone in your obsessions, can be aggravating.
Right: Being alone in your obsessions can be aggravating.
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4 comments:
You should read "The Elegance of the Hedgehog," Ronnie. One of the narrators in that book (which I loved) has a thing about commas, too. :)
Oh, my 'thing' goes well beyond commas, but I will check it out! :-)
LOL my sister reams me out all the time for putting apostrophes in plurals... I *know* where apostrophes truly belong, but somehow they keep ending up in places that that, well, don't really need them... :-P
I'm a comma abuser. Never in plurals or dates but most definitely in long sentences. (Except now I'm totally second-guessing myself as I write and have no idea if I should use any commas in that last sentence. See what you did?)
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