Framingham State College The Writing Guide by CASA Plagiarism Revising and Editing Drafting Researching Prewriting

 

Revising and Editing

Reconsidering your ideas, examining your paragraphs, checking your style and grammar.

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Commas

A comma (,) is a mark of punctuation that is used to indicate a separation between a word, phrase, or clause. A comma can also separate things in a list or numerals. Commas give writers all kinds of trouble.

Commas before Conjunctions

Commas after an Introductory Element or Introductory Subordinate Phrase

Commas after Items in a Series

Commas with Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements

Commas between a Subject and a Verb