Sex. Now that I have your attention, I’d like to discuss the fact that this sentence you’re reading is not necessarily a run-on sentence because run-on sentences are not simply sentences that run on ...

Adding a comma can change the meaning of a sentence. Let's eat Albert. = We're going to eat Albert. Let's eat, Albert. = We're eating with Albert. In a long sentence, you can use commas to separate ...

One of my students once told me that when she writes something she always puts a comma wherever she thinks someone should take a breath. She defended this by saying this is what they do in a musical ...

I am, unapologetically, an over-user of commas. Case in point: I could have written the previous sentence as, "I am an unapologetic over-user of commas," but opted not to. I wished to emphasize just ...

It’s just a comma, my friend complained to me last week while I was editing her essay. I had told her, politely but firmly, that one of her sentences was incorrect without a comma; she did not take it ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link An Oxford, or serial, comma is the last comma in a list; it goes before the word "and." Technically, it's grammatically optional in American ...