Memorize these comma rules before you write your next essay, letter, or email! advertisement. Reader's Digest. 13 Comma Rules Everyone Should Know. Story by Morgan Cutolo • 9mo.

Use a comma to separate the elements in a full date (weekday, month and day, year) Example: Friday, June 8, 2018, was a great day to go to the beach.

It’s National Punctuation Day tomorrow. Please contain your excitement. I wrote about it in 2008 and in 2009, apparently skipping it last year. Since one of Professor Stacy Spaulding’s … ...

A gaudy Hawaiian shirt should have no comma because you only put commas between adjectives when the word “and” would make sense there. It’s not a gaudy and Hawaiian shirt.

So if you take a strict interpretation of both these rules, you’d choose our first option because it has a comma before “and,” another comma after “and” and a third after “available.” ...

In such a construction, you need two of the versatile punctuation marks (commas) as they make the content of the clause clear, just as they help in the reading of it: The governor, she said, had gone.

These 3 sentences show why you should always use the Oxford comma. By Shane Ferro. 2015-05-01T16:38:00Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link. An icon in the shape of ...

If you’re looking for a grammatical convention guaranteed to spark an unnecessarily outraged debate, look no further than the Oxford comma [Editor’s note: I don’t know that I’d call it ...

When do you use the Oxford comma? The Oxford comma should be included before the final "and" in lists. For example, a list of three drinks might be punctuated either as "beer, wine, and whisky ...