Commas are important

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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[Enter stage left]

1. Let's go eat Grandma

oops, forgot the comma after "eat".

[11 Bravo]

16. Who knows, Grandma might kinda dig it.

[MichMan]

2. I helped my Uncle, Jack, off a horse

[SergeStorms]

14. That's a tricky one.

😉 You could get the authorities called on you for that one.

[Sogo]

3. I used to teach remedial English to freshmen

entering college.

I would always start off the section on commas by writing this sentence on the board and asking where the comma belonged:

God rest ye merry gentlemen.










The answer: It could go after any of the words and create a different meaning of the sentence for each.

[George II]

4. Any of the words except gentlemen.

[EarnestPutz]

7. ............

[paleotn]

10. pzzzzzt....

[niyad]

5. One of my favourite books is, "Eats Shoots and Leaves".

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And the story of an extra comma that cost the government (British, I think) a lot if money in taxes. There was a list of items that were excluded from taxation, amoung them were breadfruit plants. When the list was compiled, it read "breadfruit, plants". Oops.

[krispos42]

12. I picked up a used copy of that at Goodwill a couple of weeks ago

Looking forward to reading it!

[FakeNoose]

6. The importance of punctuation

You know what would be really funny? If the head belonged to Junior.

[malaise]

8. Love it

[calimary]

15. That's hilarious!!!

[Wednesdays]

9. Hymn: "Ride on, King Jesus"

Church bulletin left out the comma

[Sympthsical]

11. Stop clubbing, baby seals!

Probably my all time favorite use of this topic.

[Marcuse]

13. Technically, the Oxford comma is optional in US English.

[marie999]

17. Woman without her man is nothing.

Women write, Woman, without her, man is nothing. Men write, Woman, without her man, is nothing.