comma

In his “Phonetic Punctuation,” Borge read a story aloud and gave every comma and period its own sound effect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

“Early punctuation focused on the contours of the sentence, giving us the comma, colon, and period,” Ms. Hazrat writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

"I agree with much of what he said, but not absolutely every word and dot and comma of it," he added.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025

“First you say ‘comma,’ like a comma in a sentence,” said Amara Ajagu.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024

Here’s how to get out of some of the most common comma complications.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Also, he said, she added way too many commas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026

How barmy is it to fly thousands of people half-way around the world to sit in giant air-conditioned tents to argue about commas, and interpretations of convoluted words?

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025

Unlike periods and commas, em dashes aren’t integral to sentence structure; they’re a considered choice that can, but by no means have to, take the place of commas, parentheses and semicolons.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2025

There’s an unwritten law that literary fiction set in the high plains be sturdy and simple — sentences firm as fence posts, commas hammered in as clean as barn nails.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024

He wanted you to think that the only reason he was lousy at writing compositions was because he stuck all the commas in the wrong place.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger