Thursday, October 1, 2015

Series and Conventions


Series and Conventions Series
            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

            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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