{"id":909,"date":"2013-03-01T22:34:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T04:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/?p=909"},"modified":"2021-11-24T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T16:09:50","slug":"commas-part-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/commas\/commas-part-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Commas with Introductory Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rule 1 &#8211; <\/strong>Use a comma when beginning sentences with introductory words such as <em>well<\/em><em>,<\/em> <em>why, hello,<\/em> <em>no<\/em><em>,<\/em> <em>yes, <\/em>etc.<br \/>\n<strong>Examples:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Yes, I do need that report.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Well, I never thought I&#8217;d live to see the day\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rule 2 &#8211; <\/strong>Use a comma before and after introductory words such as <em>namely, that is, i.e., for example, e.g.,<\/em> or <em>for instance<\/em> when they are followed by a series of items.<br \/>\n<strong>Example:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>You may be required to bring many items, e.g., sleeping bags, pans, and warm clothing. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <em>i.e.<\/em> (in Latin:<em> id est<\/em>) means <em>that is<\/em>;<em> e.g.<\/em> (in Latin:<em> exempli gratia<\/em>) roughly means <em>for example<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz<\/strong><br \/>\nSelect the correct sentence.<\/p>\n<p>1A. No you may not have a dollar.<br \/>\n1B. No, you may not have a dollar.<\/p>\n<p>2A. Well isn\u2019t that the funniest thing you\u2019ve ever heard?<br \/>\n2B. Well, isn\u2019t that the funniest thing you\u2019ve ever heard?<\/p>\n<p>3A. I will work in one of only three states, namely, Washington, Oregon, or Idaho.<br \/>\n3B. I will work in one of only three states namely, Washington, Oregon, or Idaho.<br \/>\n3C. I will work in one of only three states namely Washington, Oregon, or Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>4A. We are learning about many different punctuation marks, i.e., periods, commas, and semicolons.<br \/>\n4B. We are learning about many different punctuation marks, e.g., periods, commas, and semicolons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Quiz Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1B. No, you may not have a dollar.<br \/>\n2B. Well, isn\u2019t that the funniest thing you\u2019ve ever heard?<br \/>\n3A. I will work in one of only three states, namely, Washington, Oregon, or Idaho.<br \/>\n4B. We are learning about many different punctuation marks, e.g., periods, commas, and semicolons. (Using <em>e.g.<\/em> means that these three punctuation marks are examples of what you are learning about. Using <em>i.e. <\/em>would have meant that these three are the only ones you are learning about.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rule 1 &#8211; Use a comma when beginning sentences with introductory words such as well, why, hello, no, yes, etc. Examples: Yes, I do need that report. Well, I never thought I&#8217;d live to see the day\u2026 Rule 2 &#8211; Use a comma before and after introductory words such as namely, that is, i.e., for [&hellip;]<\/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-909","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\/909"}],"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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5659,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/5659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}