There are many uses for the comma in English grammar. Let\u2019s look at a couple of them.<\/p>\n
Rule 1:<\/strong> To avoid confusion, use commas to separate words and word groups with a series of three or more.<\/p>\n Examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n John likes to eat a hearty breakfast of pancakes, sausage, toast, and chocolate!<\/em><\/p>\n (Omitting the comma after toast <\/em>might cause a reader to think that toast and chocolate together formed one food item rather than two separate items that John enjoyed eating at breakfast.)<\/p>\n Sally danced in ballet classes, school productions, and community shows.<\/em><\/p>\n Rule 2a: <\/strong>Use a comma to separate the day of the month from the year, and also place one after the year.<\/p>\n Examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n Jim Thompson gave his historic speech on March 3, 2002, in Chicago, Illinois.<\/em><\/p>\n Kathleen met her husband on December 5, 2003, in Mill Valley, California.<\/em><\/p>\n Rule 2b:<\/strong> If any part of the date is omitted, leave out the comma.<\/p>\n Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n They met in December 2003 in Mill Valley.<\/em><\/p>\n Quiz:<\/strong><\/p>\n Choose the sentence with the correct punctuation.<\/p>\n 1A. Mr. Baker teaches high school courses in history, math, and physical education.<\/p>\n 1B. Mr. Baker teaches high school courses in history, math and physical education.<\/p>\n 2A. The couple\u2019s vacation is scheduled to end on January 2 2010.<\/p>\n 2B. The couple\u2019s vacation is scheduled to end on January 2, 2010.<\/p>\n 3A. The vice president of the group was elected back in March 1998.<\/p>\n 3B. The vice president of the group was elected back in March, 1998.<\/p>\n Answers:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1A. Mr. Baker teaches high school courses in history, math, and physical education.<\/p>\n 2B. The couple\u2019s vacation is scheduled to end on January 2, 2010.<\/p>\n 3A. The vice president of the group was elected back in March 1998.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are many uses for the comma in English grammar. Let\u2019s look at a couple of them. Rule 1: To avoid confusion, use commas to separate words and word groups with a series of three or more. Examples: John likes to eat a hearty breakfast of pancakes, sausage, toast, and chocolate! (Omitting the comma after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commas"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5655,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/5655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}