Words or groups of
words in a series are separated by commas.
He was surrounded by sycophants,
liars, and thieves.
Smedley had money hidden in the
mattress, under the rug, and in the urn containing his mother’s ashes.
Conventions
Conventions
Commas are used to separate groups
of numbers into units of threes, in dates and addresses, in titles and degrees,
and with phrases identifying direct quotations. Notice that if dates or
addresses appear within a sentence, a comma is required after the year and
after the date.
Aristotle Mongoose, Ph. D., of St. George , New
Hampshire , said, “From October 1, 1997, to September
30 of the next year, Americans consumed 7,340,000 pounds of chocolate.”
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