Some Great Comma Use Resources
Commas flummox the best of us. I've been writing professionally since the 1980s, yet I often have to think twice about how to punctuate tricky sentences. I teach college online, and commas are the biggest bane of my students when they write papers.
I share several resources with my students each semester, so I thought I'd post them here in my blog I thought I shared them before, but I couldn't find a post, so here they are:
Punctuation Made Simple: http://lilt.ilstu.edu/golson/punctuation/comma.html
Purdue Owl Commas: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/02/
Rules for Comma Usage: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm
GrammarBook.com Commas: http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/commas.asp
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Recent Comments
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, great links and thanks for sharing these. I sometimes get puzzled still (like at the beginning of a sentence:) I've found the more I write the easier it becomes to include correct punctuation. I will sometimes deliberately misuse it to make a point...artistic license, I call, it. Going to bookmark this for those times I get stuck.