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Grammar and Life-saving Comma Rules

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Comma rules save your life? Okay, maybe not literally… unless you’re an authoritarian leader whose minions take every word you write that way… So it could happen. There’s a popular meme that shows just how comma rules may save (or cost) lives. Let’s eat Grandma. Let’s eat, Grandma. As the caption says “Punctuation saves lives.” In … [Read more…]

Grammar: Commas before conjunctions and complete thoughts

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Since we’re probably all still recovering from the last few days of heavy eating and shopping, I thought I’d keep this month’s topic short and sweet: using commas before conjunctions when they are followed by a complete thought. Let’s break that down. First: conjunctions. You may remember conjunctions from School House Rock: “Conjunction junction, what’s … [Read more…]