Writing Resources - Five Comma Rules

comma Rule 1: Put a comma before for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so when they connect two independent clauses An independent clause stands alone as a sentence The

In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks In antiquity it was defined as a comma A comma is a punctuation mark that indicates a pause in a sentence or separates items in a list A comma is also used before the words and or but to