How To Use Multiple Commas
One way to tell whether the adjectives are coordinate is to try switching the order of them.
How to use multiple commas. Examine these correctly punctuated sentences. Alexander s bridge willa cather when there are more than two items use commas between each item. Even if your wishes are less than festive you still want your comma use to be on point. When there are only two items there is no comma. As a joining comma in joining two sentences together with and or etc.
If you have only one clause one subject and verb pair you generally won t need a comma in front of the conjunction. Use of multiple ands here seems a bit odd to me. Two cotton handkerchiefs some brass trinkets and a. Hilda was back in a few moments wearing a long gray squirrel coat and a broad fur hat. These phrases add information to a sentence but do not have a subject and verb that are separate from the subject and verb in the main clause of the sentence.
When multiple adjectives modify a noun to an equal degree they are said to be coordinate and should be separated by commas. I don t know if it s correct grammar or not. Dear john comma errors are also frequently found in the greetings of emails and holiday letters. For example if you re channeling ebenezer scrooge bah humbug requires a comma because you re addressing a humbug. Can i use the following sentence.
I painted and he sanded. Coordinate adjectives versus cumulative adjectives. As a bracketing or isolating comma to mark off a weak interruption of the sentence so the sentence flows more smoothly. See the example of the semicolon being used as a super comma given at this the oatmeal comic. As a gapping comma to show that words have been removed instead of repeated.
Also don t use commas to separate other descriptions from words that indicate number or amount many more few less and so forth. That man is a pompous self righteous annoying idiot. More descriptive words that you shouldn t separate from other descriptions or from the words that they describe include other another this that these those. I have lived in sydney australia. As a listing comma in replace of words such as and or etc.