Poor punctuation brings shame to well-written literature. Therefore, no accomplished author can afford to ignore it. A comma, which is a member of the punctuation family, plays an essential role in your write-up. Let’s study its 5 primary uses.
- A comma is placed between words in a series:
- She likes to eat fruits, juice, ice cream, and brownies.
- A comma can also be used for salutation, such as opening and closing a letter.
- Dear Sir and Madam, (in the opening of the letter)
- Love, Josh (at the end of the letter)
- A comma is also used to set off a dependent clause at the beginning of a sentence.
- After working hard on this assignment, we decided to take some time off for future projects.
- A comma is used before the conjunction in a compound sentence. In other words, we connect two sentences using ‘and.’
- She likes to eat fruits, and she likes to eat ice cream.
- A comma is used before and after quotation marks.
- “She likes to eat fruits,” She said.
- She said, “She likes to eat fruits.”