Hey, Look! A Post About Commas

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For my first post of 2013, I thought I’d cover an issue that I mentioned back in 2011.  I’m brining it up again because it seems to cause a lot of confusion out there in author land. I say that because it’s one of the things that I often run across. It’s the issue of [...]

Are You a Serial Killer? Five out of Ten Experts Agree . . . or Disagree

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Hello to everyone out there in WG2E land. I thought I would drop one more post about commas on you before moving on to greener and less cringe-inducing pastures. This one is a real hum-dinger. I avoided it as long as I could. Much blood has been spilled over this question. Well, maybe not blood [...]

“Hey! Mr. Element, Are You Essential to that Sentence?”

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For this post, I’m going to concentrate on a comma issue that can cause problems for writers. The rule I’m speaking of is the one that states nonessential elements should be separated from the rest of the sentence with commas before and after the element in question. Unlike most other comma issues, this one involves [...]

Of Commas and Clauses, and I’m Not Talkin’ Santa

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There was a request last time I posted for a comma related post. I was sitting around and suddenly had this brilliant idea. Of course! The best thing to write a post about would be. . .COMMAS! It simply isn’t possible to cover everything to do with commas in one little blog post, so I [...]