How often do you have to bear with punctuation marks? They get pretty annoying sometimes, don’t they? Cheer up. Don’t let these sneaky little symbols bite your head off. This post will help you make sense of the comma after the word first and its other closely-related phrases. [toc] Do we need a …
Comma Rules
Commas are small punctuation marks in the English language that are used in more ways than any other punctuation mark. The use of commas can be daunting since their use is so varied and wide. It seems hard to know when they should or should not be used. That is where this guide can help. …
Do you know what Latin abbreviations such as “i.e.”, “et al.”, and “e.g.”, stand for? And, have you been punctuating them properly? If so, then that means you’re saving grammar pedants from having either a stroke or cardiac arrest. So, whether you’re mentally reading e.g. as “exempli gratia” or simply as “egg sample”, as most …
Imagine a world where punctuations and cohesive devices do not exist. It must be quite easy to pass our grammar-based assessments with flying colors. However, it must also mean that written texts will be crowded, monotonous, and nonetheless illogical. Therefore, it is needless to say that non-lexical symbols or punctuation marks, altogether with cohesive devices …
At least once in our lifetime, punctuation marks have tripped us up. Some punctuation marks may be pretty easy to use, but others might just be trickier like semicolons, colons, and commas. Commas may not seem that threatening in our ordinary reading and writing days. They do become a burden, though, when they appear in …
Economic development induces the need for technological and business advancements. These inevitable, nonetheless exponential, progressions have dramatically affected most, if not all fields of disciplines including linguistics. Morphological truncation or word shortening has been consistently on par with communication agent developments such as mobile phones and computers. While this process is already tricky, it is …
Symbols as unthreatening and innocent-looking as commas do have the ability to make any person flinch at least an inch when writing. To add insult to the broken leg, we may also get anxious with the confusing nature of adverbs masquerading as conjunctions. As cringy (or cringey) as these topics may be, we cannot run …
Writing may arguably be one of the most creative, albeit tedious, language-related activities. Although writing standards seem far less rigid in the digital world, the academic and professional fields require otherwise. Punctuations and cohesive devices alike do have the ability to make us feel confused, nonetheless anxious. As an attempt to help in the mentioned …
According to Wikipedia, the word “and” is one of the five most commonly used words in the English language. That’s not surprising. “And” can do a lot of things, and for some of those things, you’ll need commas. Generally speaking, though, commas usually appear before the word “and” rather than after “and.” If you’d like …