* It’s time for another fascinating episode concerning the slippery little comma. There’s a good reason it’s the most misused punctuation in the English language. The rules are many and varied. Purdue says: “Use a pair of commas in the…
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Commas and Parenthetical Statements
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Commas: Introductory Phrases
According to Purdue (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/607/) introductory phrases, unlike introductory clauses, “don’t have both a subject and a verb that are separate from the subject and verb in the main clause of the sentence. Common introductory phrases include prepositional phrases, appositive phrases,…
Tagged with: absolute phrases, Cathleen Townsend, commas, infinitive phrases, introductory phrases, participial phrases, prepositional phrases
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