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  • Punctuation Rules for Commas in Written English
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    Punctuation Rules for Commas in Written English

    Punctuation is a convention of writing that helps readers more clearly understand written language. There are ten punctuation rules for using commas as punctuation marks in written American English: Separating items in a series Separating verb clauses After adverbials that precede the main clause Separating coordinate adjectives Separating nonrestrictive adjective clauses Separating nonessential appositives Separating […] More

  • English Punctuation
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    English Punctuation

    Discover the rules for using apostrophes, braces, brackets, colons, commas, dashes, ellipses, hyphens, italics, parentheses, periods, question marks, exclamation marks, interrobangs, quotation marks, semicolons, and slashes in written American English with the following guides for punctuation rules. Apostrophes Punctuation Rules for Apostrophes in Written English explains the use of apostrophes to form possessive nouns, to […] More