Too, Many, Commas!!

[Skwim]

In magazines, they use the "-" when adding on to sentences, while not introducing an entirely new sentence - something like this.

Magazine punctuation can be pretty wild. Never use pop magazine writing as a guide to punctuation or grammar.

...Triple periods are really cool too.

This is called an ellipsis. When they occur at the end of a sentence there will be four periods in a row. Ellipsis are used when one omits a word, phrase, line, paragraph, or more from a quote. In informal writing sometimes more than a three-periods will be used for effect.


That aside, occasionally I'll come across writing with relatively few commas and realize how nice it is not to have to pause before going on. It's refreshing.

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[wizanda]

Does anyone else experience this, or am I suffering from an acute comma addiction?

Like skipping invites a step, a comma invites a word.

In my opinion.

 

[`mud]

A lot of commas could mean: "a lot of thoughts",
new thought coming, wow....... there it is !

 

[Jesuslightoftheworld]

I have a bad habit when writing of putting too many commas into what I write, and I find myself having to go back and edit out several when proofreading.

I consider myself to be above average with grammar, but I often surprise myself on where I throw in a comma, and when I go back to read, I know it shouldn't be there. I pick this out rather easily when reading what someone else writes and even in my own writing. But the habit is still there to just toss them in wherever when typing.

Does anyone else experience this, or am I suffering from an acute comma addiction? I fear someone is going to find me one day lying in my bed commatose.

Me too, I love them!!! Semicolons are next. I have trouble determining how long the pause needs to be.

 

[Martin]

I cannae bear the nasty wee things.

 

[Revoltingest]

Me too, I love them!!! Semicolons are next. I have trouble determining how long the pause needs to be.

Did you know that a semicolon is just a colon which had colostomy?