Harold Comma Rules
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- Katherine did, however, set a world record in the high dive.
- To set off a word, phrase, or clause that interrupts the rest of the sentence.
- Did you drive your jaguar to school, today Megan?
- To seperate a noun in a statement directly addressing someone.
- Emma and Christina received contracts for $6,000,000 to play soccer.
- To seperate digits in numbers.
- When Anna finishes her education, she will be able to design buildings.
- To seperate an adverb clause or a long modifying phrase from the independent clause.
- Avril Lavigne, who is a famous rock star, is my former student.
- To seperate nonrestrictive phrases and clauses.
- Lauren and Riley like anchovies, or small fish, on their pizza.
- To seperate an explanatory phrase.
- Alex Bennett, M.D., was the first ASL graduate to clone Harry Potter.
- To enclose a title, name, or initials which follow a person's last name.
- Katie, Charlotte, Jenna, and Caroline produced an adventure movie.
- Between, words, phrases, and clauses in a series of three or more items.
- Tatiana walked into her beautiful, huge mansion near Paris.
- To seperate two or more adjectives which equally modify a noun.
- Mikaila, an expert dancer, will be honored by the World Federation of Dance Association.
- To seperate and appositive, a specific kind of explanatory word or phrase which identifies or renames a noun or pronoun.
- "Did you know," said Mackenzie "that I have discovered a cure for jet lag?"
- To seperate items in a direct quote.
- Zoe Smiths was born on November 12, 1996 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
- To seperate items in an adress and items in a date.
- "Hey, did you hear about Devon's new best-selling novel?"
- To seperate an interjection or weak exclamation.
- Jamie is a brilliant chemist, and she expects to be the Albert Einstein of the next century.
- Between two independent clauses which are joined by coordinate which are joined by coordinate conjunctions such as: but, or, nor, for, yet, and so.