Dear Mom - How are you? I'm fine.
Blah - Blah - Blah
Love - Jimbo
Joe Smith - a mechanic - told me to buy a new car.
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comma or dash
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Re: comma or dash
I probably wouldn’t punctuate ”Love Jimbo” at all as it’s a shortened way of saying ”Love from Jimbo”, but otherwise it’s a comma for all of them.
A dash works with Joe Smith but it depends a bit on what you’re trying to say, I think. Compare:
Joe Smith, a mechanic, told me to buy a new car, as this one’s on its last legs.
Yeah, I’m fond of this car, but Joe Smith - who’s a mechanic - told me to buy a new one.
A dash works with Joe Smith but it depends a bit on what you’re trying to say, I think. Compare:
Joe Smith, a mechanic, told me to buy a new car, as this one’s on its last legs.
Yeah, I’m fond of this car, but Joe Smith - who’s a mechanic - told me to buy a new one.
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Re: comma or dash
PENK wrote:I probably wouldn’t punctuate ”Love Jimbo” at all as it’s a shortened way of saying ”Love from Jimbo”, but otherwise it’s a comma for all of them.
A dash works with Joe Smith but it depends a bit on what you’re trying to say, I think. Compare:
Joe Smith, a mechanic, told me to buy a new car, as this one’s on its last legs.
Yeah, I’m fond of this car, but Joe Smith - who’s a mechanic - told me to buy a new one.
Comma:
Without
Jimbo is fond of eating children and dogs
With
Jimbo is fond of eating, children and dogs
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Re: comma or dash
Comma, comma, comma, commeleon
You come and go
You come and go-o-oh
You come and go
You come and go-o-oh
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Re: comma or dash
Let's hear it for the Oxford comma!
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Re: comma or dash
Let's hear it for the Oxford comma, and then some!
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Re: comma or dash
PENK wrote:
Joe Smith, a mechanic, told me to buy a new car, as this one’s on its last legs.
I see your point and as I played around with dashes in place of commas I can see how there'd be some clumsiness. But why the comma between "car" and "as"? Not that a dash would help. I might put a comma, too, then remove it, then put it back. And why did I separate "too" with commas?
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Re: comma or dash
The comma is used to signify a pause - I think one would naturally have a little pause at that point in the sentence. Otherwise it gets a bit long and unwieldy with all the different clauses.
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Re: comma or dash
PENK wrote:The comma is used to signify a pause - I think one would naturally have a little pause at that point in the sentence. Otherwise it gets a bit long and unwieldy with all the different clauses.
In this case, the comma is to separate a non-defining clause. I.e. you can stop the sentence at the word, 'car', and it still makes perfect sense.
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Re: comma or dash
Right, there's gotta be a comma after "love."
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Just use a demicolon, FFS
Let U be the set of all united sets, K be the set of the kids and D be the set of things divided.
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D
Then it follows that ∀ k ∈ K: K ∈ U ⇒ k ∉ D
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^^^ LOL
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Jimbo wrote:Dear Mom - How are you? I'm fine.
Blah - Blah - Blah
Love - Jimbo
Joe Smith - a mechanic - told me to buy a new car.
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