People use commas in a sentence to define a break,
But how could you possibly break
When sometimes you have so much to say?
And so little time to say it?
I know neither of us had that much time
To say everything that needed to be said
But I hope what we had was enough
Comma or no comma, babe.
-Always, ox.
Kate
what we have is a comma, a simple piece of punctuation that is more often misused and abused than used correctly. We have the spinster’s comma, the grocer’s comma. None of this makes sense, but I’m going to throw in commas anyway. It’s important to know that when you’re punctuating something, a comma is as often wrong as it is right. You just have to know.
Robert
i dont give a fuck about an oxford comma
amustafa
pause. say more. pause again. you don’t have to stop altogether, but take time to think a bit. add something descriptive. breathe too. there’s always more you can say.
Jan
Comma. I love you comma too. I love you comma Travis. Commas are an interesting form of punctuation, if you ask me. I think I overuse them a bit, though. Damn.
Rhane Yarbrough
I am an over comma user. I really like commas because they signify a break in thought for me. Like, right there…did you see that? Commas are super cool, but I must admit that I use them too much. I abuse them. I really need to stop. I really need to stop the madness, but I just love them so!
D
her English teacher stared at her intently. She had written the sentence on the board no less than 3 minutes ago, and the teacher still hadn’t said a word. She proof-read her sentence over and over again, until she finally realized what was wrong. While the rest of the sentence was grammatically perfect, it was missing an important element of punctuation – a comma.
Tori
a comma is used when you need to take a breath during a peice a writing but if life was a story there would have to be a comma everytime i see this one girl she leaves me breathless, her smile and personailty make me smile even when i dont know it :)
Love you Kate! :)
David
I use commas way more than I should. I use commas almost as much as I use periods. I like to have as few sentences as possible. I’ll try not to use a comma write now. It’s really hard. My sentences seem too choppy. Maybe that’s why I like commas. They help the body flow.
Brit
Comma comma comma. So many commas. Why do we have commas? No body knows. Or cares. I haven’t used a single comma in this paragraph. They are useful. But they are annoying in english class when you have to figure out where to put them.
Keechie
The comma is a nice punctuation. What I absolutely cannot stand, however, is ellipsis abuse. It always makes me feel as if the person I am talking to is hesitant with a pause…did I say something wrong? There, I used it. But anyway, commas are nice, innocent little tadpoles that swim around, separating things that shouldn’t be together. Well played, comma.
ac
pause, don’t think, just pause, just, ehh hang off the edge, or lean for,ward and, see if your footing stepping heel finds a period, but not yet, until double m’s the end.
jared
In life, there are many stops. There are turns, twists, spins, ups and downs. But, sometimes, you have to wonder when does the sentence finish? When do you have a rest?. In the parentesis, or in the question sign? Believe it or not, it’s in a comma the solution you need. A short rest, insignificant but necessary, is everything you need to look at your life again, and wonder why things are like this. Be it good or bad, there’s always room for improvement, don’t you think?
So, all you need is that. A comma.
Anonymous
a pause… marking a break somewhere…in a sentence, perhaps in life as well. sounds soft- is it because of the calm it brings? signifying the coming end somewhere?
saurav
comma. often forgotten but usually important. completely absent from this little segment.
Anonymous
pause. wait a second. what’s the next clause? before you begin, let me just say….what if there were another way? break. break fast. breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Amanda
quite entertaining when someone puts a coma between sentances instead of a comma, never made sence to me.. just like lets go axe the teacher for the answer, no i would prefer not to get blood all over this new t shirt, thanks for the invite though
Phillip Smith
again, i just did comma…from reading the other entries, a comma is like a smudge, almost an insignificant punctuation. its just like…there. it doesn’t have the strength of a period, nor a semi colon, but can also act as a colon.
xoxoChicaFriend
A comma is used in grammar to bring together two sentence fragments, making a full sentence. The two sentence fragments would not make sense as two sentences, but not as a run on sentence either. Putting in a comma helps the sentence make sense.
xoxoChicaFriend
poor little comma
it’s like a teardrop.
that’s cause it wishes it were an apostrophe.
or anything else for that matter.
not my favorite punctuation, its not final enough for me. lacks the perfect circle stop of a period, more of a smeared symbol, leaving room for clarifications and exceptions and excuses.
simone
used to break up sentences.
We usw commas to make reading of information easier instead of having to rwly
aine
comma. Grammar. Gah, when i text the commas never come out right because i have a full keyboard. And it ends up typing out a letter that i didn’t want anyways. When were commas created? who invented them? Gah, why did they do it? I blame them for my pain.
Brooke
Commas are awesome, they make me feel smart. I would make babies with a comma if I could. Mmmm… commas.
Suzy
The most played song on my ITunes is “Oxford Comma” by Vampire Weekend. I had no idea what an Oxford Comma was until I actually looked it up after seeing the title of the song.
Ben Gwynne
a comma is really great it seperates words and it makes writing a lot easier.sometimes i dont know how to write with a comma because i dont know all the usage of the comma but since sinior year i have been improving! yay me but now the time is running out and i have not used a comma not even once in this writing.
milka
I glared at the blinking computer screen, trying to put what I wanted to say in words. A question here, a comma there. I just couldn’t focus. I couldn’t concentrate.
Urgh.
comma uhhhhhh. . . i do not know what to write
so. . .
zoe
comma uhhhhhh. . . i do not know what to write
so. . .
a
A comma is like that breath you take in the middle of a long sentece. I saw on TV, once, that the world’s fastest talker had to remember to take breaths because apparently you stop breathing when someone’s talkig. Which is kind of weird , but I could understand that.
K-peace
comma comma comma Chameleon
andythrobber
Comma, was just used, twice. It marks the pauses, in my sentences, but, if it, ma,rk,s the pauses in, my, though,t,s the com,ma would be self-splicing it,self to p,i,e,c,e,s,
Lily Bart
klfsdlkfjlskd
jessica Wolinsky
Yesterday I was stuck. Where did I put the comma? What in the world WAS a comma? Who in the world would come up with a stupid name like comma? Just think about it co-m-ma– But I’m getting sidetracked, just like I did last night. Google was helpful, though I had to sift through three websites before I found out exactly where a freaking comma went. And then I still wasn’t sure–
Christine
The comma, stifles my thoughts, as they go, rushing, relentlessly, filling my head. In the end, it fails, and gives way to kind of epiphany, and a smile.
JC
Every time there is a pause in conversation where it sounds like it COULD be the end of a sentence, I think to myself, “comma or period?”
I wonder the same thing about a lot of things that happen in my day to day life, too. When one door shuts, does it lock, or do you have to choose to open it? Is it a comma or a period?
Cali
i have a tendency, to, overuse, commas,
they give pause
create cavernous spaces
between words.
the round, empty curve
of the comma
comma
who
gives
fuck
about
an
oxford
comma?
Dawn
Comma, comma, comma, comma comma? Coma. Desklamps lighting up a tiny sphere of space. My roommate threatens to throws things at me.
Mark
Well, like, yeah, I think so, or rather, thought so. However, perhaps, and this is just a guess, I’m using too many commas.
People use commas in a sentence to define a break,
But how could you possibly break
When sometimes you have so much to say?
And so little time to say it?
I know neither of us had that much time
To say everything that needed to be said
But I hope what we had was enough
Comma or no comma, babe.
-Always, ox.
what we have is a comma, a simple piece of punctuation that is more often misused and abused than used correctly. We have the spinster’s comma, the grocer’s comma. None of this makes sense, but I’m going to throw in commas anyway. It’s important to know that when you’re punctuating something, a comma is as often wrong as it is right. You just have to know.
i dont give a fuck about an oxford comma
pause. say more. pause again. you don’t have to stop altogether, but take time to think a bit. add something descriptive. breathe too. there’s always more you can say.
Comma. I love you comma too. I love you comma Travis. Commas are an interesting form of punctuation, if you ask me. I think I overuse them a bit, though. Damn.
I am an over comma user. I really like commas because they signify a break in thought for me. Like, right there…did you see that? Commas are super cool, but I must admit that I use them too much. I abuse them. I really need to stop. I really need to stop the madness, but I just love them so!
her English teacher stared at her intently. She had written the sentence on the board no less than 3 minutes ago, and the teacher still hadn’t said a word. She proof-read her sentence over and over again, until she finally realized what was wrong. While the rest of the sentence was grammatically perfect, it was missing an important element of punctuation – a comma.
a comma is used when you need to take a breath during a peice a writing but if life was a story there would have to be a comma everytime i see this one girl she leaves me breathless, her smile and personailty make me smile even when i dont know it :)
Love you Kate! :)
I use commas way more than I should. I use commas almost as much as I use periods. I like to have as few sentences as possible. I’ll try not to use a comma write now. It’s really hard. My sentences seem too choppy. Maybe that’s why I like commas. They help the body flow.
Comma comma comma. So many commas. Why do we have commas? No body knows. Or cares. I haven’t used a single comma in this paragraph. They are useful. But they are annoying in english class when you have to figure out where to put them.
The comma is a nice punctuation. What I absolutely cannot stand, however, is ellipsis abuse. It always makes me feel as if the person I am talking to is hesitant with a pause…did I say something wrong? There, I used it. But anyway, commas are nice, innocent little tadpoles that swim around, separating things that shouldn’t be together. Well played, comma.
pause, don’t think, just pause, just, ehh hang off the edge, or lean for,ward and, see if your footing stepping heel finds a period, but not yet, until double m’s the end.
In life, there are many stops. There are turns, twists, spins, ups and downs. But, sometimes, you have to wonder when does the sentence finish? When do you have a rest?. In the parentesis, or in the question sign? Believe it or not, it’s in a comma the solution you need. A short rest, insignificant but necessary, is everything you need to look at your life again, and wonder why things are like this. Be it good or bad, there’s always room for improvement, don’t you think?
So, all you need is that. A comma.
a pause… marking a break somewhere…in a sentence, perhaps in life as well. sounds soft- is it because of the calm it brings? signifying the coming end somewhere?
comma. often forgotten but usually important. completely absent from this little segment.
pause. wait a second. what’s the next clause? before you begin, let me just say….what if there were another way? break. break fast. breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
quite entertaining when someone puts a coma between sentances instead of a comma, never made sence to me.. just like lets go axe the teacher for the answer, no i would prefer not to get blood all over this new t shirt, thanks for the invite though
again, i just did comma…from reading the other entries, a comma is like a smudge, almost an insignificant punctuation. its just like…there. it doesn’t have the strength of a period, nor a semi colon, but can also act as a colon.
A comma is used in grammar to bring together two sentence fragments, making a full sentence. The two sentence fragments would not make sense as two sentences, but not as a run on sentence either. Putting in a comma helps the sentence make sense.
poor little comma
it’s like a teardrop.
that’s cause it wishes it were an apostrophe.
or anything else for that matter.
comma comma comma comma comma comma comma
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Fuck yes.
not my favorite punctuation, its not final enough for me. lacks the perfect circle stop of a period, more of a smeared symbol, leaving room for clarifications and exceptions and excuses.
used to break up sentences.
We usw commas to make reading of information easier instead of having to rwly
comma. Grammar. Gah, when i text the commas never come out right because i have a full keyboard. And it ends up typing out a letter that i didn’t want anyways. When were commas created? who invented them? Gah, why did they do it? I blame them for my pain.
Commas are awesome, they make me feel smart. I would make babies with a comma if I could. Mmmm… commas.
The most played song on my ITunes is “Oxford Comma” by Vampire Weekend. I had no idea what an Oxford Comma was until I actually looked it up after seeing the title of the song.
a comma is really great it seperates words and it makes writing a lot easier.sometimes i dont know how to write with a comma because i dont know all the usage of the comma but since sinior year i have been improving! yay me but now the time is running out and i have not used a comma not even once in this writing.
I glared at the blinking computer screen, trying to put what I wanted to say in words. A question here, a comma there. I just couldn’t focus. I couldn’t concentrate.
comma uhhhhhh. . . i do not know what to write
so. . .
comma uhhhhhh. . . i do not know what to write
so. . .
A comma is like that breath you take in the middle of a long sentece. I saw on TV, once, that the world’s fastest talker had to remember to take breaths because apparently you stop breathing when someone’s talkig. Which is kind of weird , but I could understand that.
comma comma comma Chameleon
Comma, was just used, twice. It marks the pauses, in my sentences, but, if it, ma,rk,s the pauses in, my, though,t,s the com,ma would be self-splicing it,self to p,i,e,c,e,s,
klfsdlkfjlskd
Yesterday I was stuck. Where did I put the comma? What in the world WAS a comma? Who in the world would come up with a stupid name like comma? Just think about it co-m-ma– But I’m getting sidetracked, just like I did last night. Google was helpful, though I had to sift through three websites before I found out exactly where a freaking comma went. And then I still wasn’t sure–
The comma, stifles my thoughts, as they go, rushing, relentlessly, filling my head. In the end, it fails, and gives way to kind of epiphany, and a smile.
Every time there is a pause in conversation where it sounds like it COULD be the end of a sentence, I think to myself, “comma or period?”
I wonder the same thing about a lot of things that happen in my day to day life, too. When one door shuts, does it lock, or do you have to choose to open it? Is it a comma or a period?
i have a tendency, to, overuse, commas,
they give pause
create cavernous spaces
between words.
the round, empty curve
of the comma
comma
who
gives
fuck
about
an
oxford
comma?
Comma, comma, comma, comma comma? Coma. Desklamps lighting up a tiny sphere of space. My roommate threatens to throws things at me.
Well, like, yeah, I think so, or rather, thought so. However, perhaps, and this is just a guess, I’m using too many commas.