Comments on: Introducing the Comma http://www.dailywritingtips.com/introducing-the-comma/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:41:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Skip http://www.dailywritingtips.com/introducing-the-comma/comment-page-1/#comment-395274 Skip Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:40:04 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/introducing-the-comma/#comment-395274 "Now you know." "Now, have you eaten yet?" “Now you know.”

“Now, have you eaten yet?”

]]> By: Tessa http://www.dailywritingtips.com/introducing-the-comma/comment-page-1/#comment-393765 Tessa Sat, 10 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/introducing-the-comma/#comment-393765 Beware about turning comma rules into a belief system. First, they can differ depending on the style sheet you have to use. For instance, if you are writing for a newspaper, magazine, or other publication where space is a concern, you will be required to use a lot fewer commas. Also, as Rick Monroe noted in 2007, the fashion in commas changes about every twenty years. So, learn your comma rules well now, and be prepared to be flexible--or surprised--in the future. Beware about turning comma rules into a belief system. First, they can differ depending on the style sheet you have to use. For instance, if you are writing for a newspaper, magazine, or other publication where space is a concern, you will be required to use a lot fewer commas. Also, as Rick Monroe noted in 2007, the fashion in commas changes about every twenty years. So, learn your comma rules well now, and be prepared to be flexible–or surprised–in the future.

]]> By: ajd http://www.dailywritingtips.com/introducing-the-comma/comment-page-1/#comment-389651 ajd Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:59:11 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/introducing-the-comma/#comment-389651 SZ, interesting question. I'd like to know, too. I rewrote it to break down the question. "The panic came with the realization. His hands started fisting into the sheets." Flipping it around to "With the realization, the panic came." But then instinct tells me not to put a comma and cut the verb off from the agent, which would be "With the realization", but it's not, is it? The subject+verb structure is obvious in "The panic came". "With the realization came the panic." But instinct says, hmm, not sure anymore. Unless you're writing poetry. I'd go for the comma. Without it, realization looks like the subject of "came", but it's not. SZ, interesting question. I’d like to know, too. I rewrote it to break down the question.

“The panic came with the realization. His hands started fisting into the sheets.”

Flipping it around to “With the realization, the panic came.”

But then instinct tells me not to put a comma and cut the verb off from the agent, which would be “With the realization”, but it’s not, is it? The subject+verb structure is obvious in “The panic came”.

“With the realization came the panic.”

But instinct says, hmm, not sure anymore. Unless you’re writing poetry.

I’d go for the comma. Without it, realization looks like the subject of “came”, but it’s not.

]]> By: SP. http://www.dailywritingtips.com/introducing-the-comma/comment-page-1/#comment-375761 SP. Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:31:00 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/introducing-the-comma/#comment-375761 Take a look at this sentence: "Now what you need to do is get a grip, because if you can't handle this arrangement, I'll find someone else who can!" Should there be a comma after 'Now', and is the comma before 'because' correct? Take a look at this sentence: “Now what you need to do is get a grip, because if you can’t handle this arrangement, I’ll find someone else who can!”

Should there be a comma after ‘Now’, and is the comma before ‘because’ correct?

]]> By: SZ. http://www.dailywritingtips.com/introducing-the-comma/comment-page-1/#comment-375759 SZ. Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:18:45 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/introducing-the-comma/#comment-375759 Another sentence, "With the realization, came the panic, and his hands started fisting into the sheets." The comma before 'came'- is it correct? Another sentence, “With the realization, came the panic, and his hands started fisting into the sheets.”

The comma before ‘came’- is it correct?

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