The fun of commas is of course the semantic havoc they can create when either wrongly inserted ("What is this thing called, love?") or carelessly omitted ("He shot himself as a child").*
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*He shot, himself, as a child.
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Take the example, "The Highland Terrier is the cutest, and perhaps the best of all dog species." Sensitive people trained to listen for the second comma (after "best") find themselves quite stranded by that kind of thing. they feel cheated and giddy. In very bad cases, they fall over.
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A Random Phrase wrote:A child sitting in a County Schools exam in 1937 would be asked to punctuate the following puzzler: "Charles the First walked and talked half an hour after his head was cut off."
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The answer, for those who haven't figured it out (or don't want to bother figuring it out):
Charles the First walked and talked. Half an hour after, his head was cut off.
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Spill chick works grate. It all ways spills reel words. Its only if the litters make up nun words that won ever has a problem with spill chick. Ups. My bed. I mean it catches nonwords and corrects them. All other words oar good two go.WarMonger wrote:I reeeelyy on AI (artificial intelligencee) to corretly fix my grammor - if it is ticked off, I am muchly stuffed.
It don;t mstter as it is jsut communication adn understandeable to the unlearnered like me.