If Harry Shaw’s comma guidelines weren’t enough for you, you’re in luck. Here are more comma rules for you to relish. Some are ones you committed to memory in grade school. Others may be new to you. After this video, you will likely know more about commas than you ever wanted to know, but just think how impressed the 1% of writers who use commas correctly 99% of the time will be.
My paragraph for the assignment: Now, finally, I begin to grasp small portions of his teachings and I am every day stunned at the wisdom that pours out of this Teacher, seemingly straight at me, right from the start.
commas 1 and 2 set off two introductory words.
comma 3 separates a long independent clause
comma 4 separates a group of words in the sentence.
Patricia, in the handout example #5, does there need to be a comma after the word “sunny”, before the object “day”? What is the rule about the last consecutive adjective in a list? I’m hearing your direction to be consistent, whatever we choose. Is this that kind of standard?