Need help with comma usage... does this sentence require a comma?!?
I wanted to focus on the beginning on this sentence, so I changed the rest and excluded parts. Please don't focus on rating this sentence for its quality, because I realize as it is, it's terrible. haha I am questioning whether there needs to be a comma after "Little did I know." Microsoft Word suggested I re-examine this sentence for comma usage, and therefore I am asking you. Does there need to be a comma there? ... THE SENTENCE (= : Little did I know, my first “casual” stroll into ... was entirely ignorant.
I need help placing commas in these sentences!?
I need help on where to put the commas and state why to put a comma where you put it! Thanks for your help I need it done by tomorrow! I did the first 2 but they don't seem right! 1. Over two decades ago, fertility treatments were a little-explored field. I put a comma after the word ago to separate the two sentences. 2. In vitro which means “in glass” takes place in a lab dish. No comma needed 3. The process of growing to viability however cannot take place entirely in a laboratory. 4. The embryo that grows is returned to the mother’s uterus. 5. Today there are other newer less expensive methods of helping infertile couples. 6. James Baldwin wrote “This world is white no longer and it will never be white again.” 7. Who remarked that “youth is wasted on the young”? 8. Mary announced “Kids I want you to clean your rooms not make a bigger mess.” 9. The ship was hit by two torpedoes on May 7 1915 and sank in minutes. 10. The captain lowered the life boats and saved his men.
I need help with comma usage in these sentences?
I am a little confused about how to use commas in the following sentences. Do I need to remove any of these? Or add any? I was fourth on the roster, which meant I was the clean-up hitter, and the pitcher knew this. I did not want to satisfy the pitcher by making it only to first base, so I jumped back to avoid the blow. Sure enough, the pitch was so high that even if I had a trampoline under my feet, it wouldn’t have been enough. Did they understand what was actually going on, or was I an idiot in their eyes? Little did she know, she was adding fuel to the fire. In reality, we didn’t need the two runs to win the game and softball doesn’t even have nine innings. Thank you so much for your help with these!!
Can comma be used either before or after "and" in the same sentence?
Can comma be used either before or after "and" in the same sentence? Example: Her car broke down, and, as if walking 2 miles in heels wasn't bad enough, it started to rain. A conjunction is usually preceded by a comma when joining independent clauses. However, if one (or both) of the independent clauses already contains a comma (or commas), then a semicolon can be used between the independent clauses instead of a comma to outrank the commas within those clauses. This is a bit of grammar knowledge from long ago. Some call this an outdated practice, but I don't because the sentences are clear. Thoughts are concise. Examples:In the '60s, there were dozens of buzzards along the 7-mile trek; but, due to the decline in vermin, only 2 adults live in the area at present. (As these clauses both contain commas, it is possible to use a semicolon before the conjunction that merges them into a single sentence. )Mark, Dawn, and Sally adore boiled spare ribs; but Julia, a staunch vegetarian, leaves the room when they are on the menu. Her car broke down; and, as if walking 2 miles in heels wasn't bad enough, it started to rain.
Homework help i need to change the meaning of sentences using commas and write the different meanings?
Is there some way that you can restate the question? Say, by using capitals, punctuation, and spelling words out? And rearrange the words, while you are at it?. Because at this point, your question does not make any sense [EDIT] I say we give the ten points to Skif, and nominate him for the Yahoo! Genius Award for his demonstrated ability to penetrate the clouded mind. clapclapclap! Change his avatar to Radar.
Where should commas be added in the following sentences?
1. Combine flour shortening pecans and cold water to make a tasty pie crust. (1 point) after the words “flour” and “shortening” after the words “flour,” “shortening,” and “pecans” No commas are needed. 2. Preheat the oven oil the pan and prepare the crust. (1 point) after the words “oven” and “pan” after the words “oven” and “and” No commas are needed. 3. Use soap and hot water and a fresh towel to clean your hands before cooking. (1 point) after the words “soap” and “water” after the words “soap,” “water,” and “towel” No commas are needed. 4. Prickly cactus produces beautiful delicate flowers in the harsh deserts of Arizona. (1 point) after the word “beautiful” after the words “beautiful” and “harsh” No commas are needed. 5. The golden wheat fields of Kansas are a glorious sight to behold. (1 point) after the word “golden” after the words “golden” and “glorious” No commas are needed.
Would I need a comma between old and broken in the sentence "My grandparents sold their old broken clock for $100"?
You don’t need a comma. However, “old broken clock” can be understood to mean two different things:• A clock which was both old and broken.• The older of two broken clocks. (My grandparents sold their old broken clock for $100, but they kept their new broken clock.)If it’s the first meaning you wish to convey, you would be well advised to put a comma in, because old, broken makes it clear that “old” and “broken” are distinct, unconnected attributes of the clock.To put it more technically: in old broken clock, the word old could modify either broken clock or just clock. But in old, broken clock the comma separates the two adjectives, and clarifies that old (like broken) only modifies clock.There is also the question of adjectival order, which is a strange kind of rule in the English language: one that most native speakers follow instinctively, but is very difficult to pin down, though much debated by scholars.This question concerns, as you might guess, the order of adjectives. Thus, although a black big dog “ought” to mean the same as a big black dog, we would in 99% of cases use the latter order (there are exceptional cases where the former would be natural).In the case of your example, assuming we are talking about a clock both old and broken rather than the older of two broken timepieces, even if you wanted to omit the comma I think it might be more natural to say broken old clock rather than old broken clock.Commas do, of course, reduce the importance of adjectival order sometimes, and this is a perfect case. Usually you’re much more likely to meet a strange old man than an old strange man, but old, strange man is reasonably idiomatic.(PS: At the risk of being very pedantic: though I give two possible interpretations for “old broken clock”, of course they are not mutually exclusive - an “old broken clock” an “old, broken clock”, a “broken, old clock” and a “broken old clock” could all refer to exactly the same objects.In certain circumstances, where the parents had two or more clocks, their “new broken clock” could be a “broken old clock”, while the “old broken clock” was a “broken new clock”!)
Grammarians! I need some comma help!?
I have no reference or citation for you. I am a newspaper editor, though, and can tell you the comma is not necessary. If you're really concerned, try "The economics department moved in 1962."
Does this sentence require the comma, "In the forest, there are many trees"?
When I was in school, back in the '70s and '80s, in the MIdwest, USA, such a phrase would require the comma there, because the “natural” place for the prepositional phrase “in the forest” would be at the end of this sentence, and the comma would be to indicate that it had been intentionally moved, for syntactic reasons. At least that is how I was taught.However, I currently teach English in Europe in 2017, using a lot of British text books; and it seems that most of them would leave out the comma as superfluous.Maybe it’s just the particular author of the textbooks I use. Maybe the rules have changed. Maybe it’s a small UK/US difference.My personal take is this: I would use it: it is how I was taught. But I wouldn’t regard it as a big deal if someone else didn’t as it doesn’t impede understanding.