1. To join two independent clauses, use a comma followed by a conjunction, a semicolon alone, or a semicolon followed by a sentence modifier. 2. Use commas to bracket nonrestrictive phrases, which are not essential to the sentence\'s meaning. 3. Do n

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(21) / 评论(0) 分类 雅思英语

图片1 Grammar Girl here. This episode is a new and improved version of i.e. versus e.g. Misusing these two abbreviations is one of the top five mistakes I used to see when editing technical documents. There's so much confusion that in some of the d

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is going to tell us how one little comma can change the meaning of a sentence. Should we write, He has the ball too with no comma or He has the ball, too? Well, you can write the sentence either way

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语法 Grammar Girl

By Mignon Fogarty I decided to write about comma splices because my friend Scott Sigler has a book coming out this week, Ancestor, published by Crown. Over three years ago, when he was publishing an earlier version of the book with a smaller publishe

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the serial comma. Here's a listener: Hi, Grammar Girl. This is Patti from Houston... Patti and her friends are debating about the serial commathe comma that comes before the final conjunction in a list. Here's a se

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