| s help us improve our way of writing especially on | | | | professors for being too generous with the use of |
| structuring our sentences. Commas can make your | | | | commas. I’ve tempered it to some degree, but |
| sentence look clearer and that everyone can | | | | continue to find the activity a bit challenging. |
| understand your message clearly. Without the proper | | | | My writing software catches most of my errant |
| use of commas, it will ruin your whole sentences and it | | | | comma use. However, upon manual proofing, I usually |
| will only ruin your whole content and no one will be able | | | | find a couple or so that it manages to miss. Even after |
| to understand your text. | | | | that, a good editor can still spot several incorrect uses |
| Although this kind of a punctuation is very common | | | | in some of my copy. |
| and we seldom notice it when writing, it’s role in | | | | In truth, deciding the time and place to use a comma is |
| your language and grammar is very important even if | | | | not always intuitive. Sure, it’s easy enough |
| you didn’t consider its essence at all. Most of | | | | when you’re putting together lists and other |
| the time, people are not aware of its proper usage. As | | | | itemized things. Begin writing compound and complex |
| a result, they end up writing bad grammars and low | | | | sentences, however, and you’ll begin to realize |
| quality contents. | | | | the dilemma. |
| Even if commas are only a matter of writings symbols, | | | | Here, then, is the simple two-point guide to using |
| it can still make a bigger difference and change in your | | | | commas in strung-together sentences, so that you too |
| writing. That is why you need to be knowledgeable | | | | may put out properly-punctuated prose. |
| enough to learn its proper uses. Basic rules in using | | | | In compound and complex sentences, commas are |
| commas can be found at any language tutorial books | | | | always placed right after the conjunction, never before. |
| or when you search for it over the internet. | | | | If you are not connecting two complete sentences, |
| These rules are so simple and anyone can remember | | | | they should not be separated with a comma. |
| it easily and apply it in their writing. But what’s | | | | Is it always that simple? Not really. In many cases, |
| more confusing about commas is their correct usage | | | | especially nowadays, editors prefer to eliminate |
| in a complex and compound sentence. There are | | | | commas if the sentence makes sense without it. This |
| times that you place commas in a wrong time and | | | | is true even when connecting two complete |
| situation. Others place many commas in their | | | | sentences. Simply put, the general perception is that |
| sentences while others forgot to include it in their | | | | commas impede readability. Basically, too much |
| phrases. The question is, when and how are you going | | | | punctuation can leave the reader more confused than |
| to place multiple or limited commas in your compound | | | | enlightened. As such, a third guideline should be to |
| and complex sentences? | | | | “limit commas when they are necessary for |
| Back in school, I’ve been chastised by | | | | the sentence to make perfect sense. |