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Well, as promised, here is another rule for comma usage!

Conditional sentences or, otherwise known as, “if” sentences:

I’ll go to the party if you go with me.

Conditional sentences are sentences discussing the consequences of certain actions. The above sentence is an example of a first conditional sentence, which generally refers to a potentially true condition.

It [...]

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As requested, here is a bit more explanation on how to use a comma.

However, let’s first talk about punctuation in general. Basically, the idea of punctuation is to make a written text’s meaning clear and easy to understand for the reader. So, the purpose of a comma is to assist the reader in understanding [...]

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I’ve been thinking about what kind of helpful language messages I could post, but not much has come to mind. I guess it’s the winter blues that are causing my brain to go soft. Anyway, then I figured, I’d let you do the work

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I hope you enjoyed the holiday season. I’ll start the year off with another comma rule, how’s that? This rule is taken from: William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White’s “The Elements of Style” fourth edition.

Place a comma before a conjunction introducing an independent clause.

Here are a few examples:

The apartment was rather [...]

Students of mine have often got confused about the spelling of certain words, like program and programme. I tell them that ”program” is US and “programme” is UK spelling. They ask me which one they should use; I personally don’t care. I’m no advocate of one or the other; however, I have heard some people say they prefer [...]