How do you use commas correctly?

General Uses Of Commas - When Are Commas USed? 1) To separate words in a list or series → Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Fernando Torres were the top three players nominated for the FIFA world player of the year. I went to the store and bought milk, eggs, butter, soup and candy. *Notice no comma before the conjunction of the last word in your list. It's optional. 2) To mark off direct speech * notice where the comma is in each version. → Aliya said, “He’s the handsome man I was telling you about the other day.” “He’s the handsome man I was telling you about the other day,” Aliya said. 3) To mark off or separate expressions like: “however, infact, of course, therefore, after all, indeed, for instance“, from the rest of a sentence → Indeed, Manchester United won the prestigious title of the world best football club. → It was, however, too expensive for our budget. 4) To show Ellipsis → You may go your way; I, mine. → He will soon succeed; you, never. 5) To mark off question tags.*the first part of the sentence is a statment and can stand alone but when a question tag is added at the end a comma is needed. → The new year’s eve was great, isn’t it? 6) To separate short co-ordinate clauses E.g: → Please run upstairs, go to my room, get me my bag. *3 different thoughts in the same sentence. → I came, I saw, I conquered. → When it rained, we got wet. 7) To mark off an appositive. *The butcher, Joe, is a nice guy. * the appositive is 'Joe', the appositive can be removed and the sentence still works, but now you know the butchers name. It can also be done the other way. *Joe, the butcher, is a nice guy. *But now you know what Joe's job is. → During the dinner conversation, Clifford, the messiest eater at the table, spewed mashed potatoes like an erupting volcano. 8.) To separate clauses in a compound sentence. → Tom Jones was very busy with his first official album, so he did not come to the Star Academy get-together party.

Well, at least you use commas; many do the opposite and completely avoid them! I like using them a lot, too. In writing, it is helpful to use them to indicate a pause and to break up the monotony of your text structures. Semi-colons are excellent, too; they allow for further description without having a "run-on" sentence faux pas. Here's another book idea for you: Woe is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English, 3rd Edition [Paperback] written by Patricia T. O'Conner. This one could be helpful to you. You can read the book preface here: http://www.amazon.com/Woe-Grammarphobes-Guide-Better-English/dp/157322331X/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Btw, "style". is incorrect. In American English, the punctuation goes inside the quotation marks, "style." There's no rule forbidding starting a sentence w/ and or but, but informally it's been frowned on, so I'd keep it to a minimum. And and but are in the class of words known as coordinating conjunctions. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm Instead of commas for pauses, you can use three periods...if you see what I mean. That creates a smoother flow for the reader than commas. The father of the modern novel, Louis Ferdinand Celine, made ... his trade mark, and that gave his "Journey to the End of the Night" has a very fast conversational pace.

My teacher always tells us to never catch commaitus where use of commas is too much so only use them on run on sentences or dates or when listing example. Hailey, you need to work on your grammer, also i think you should wear more purple, blue, pink, and green. Also, you should not be so happy, and hailey i think you are very wonderful.

Try to get hold of the book "Eats shoots and leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynn Truss. This book will expertly explain punctuation rules, and give you a good laugh while it is doing so! p.s. I think your question above had quite good punctuation, also there are few set rules about sentences and how to construct them; just get your point across!

The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr., is a good book for you. I hope it certainly helps you.

Btw, "style". is incorrect. In American English, the punctuation goes inside the quotation marks, "style." There's no rule forbidding starting a sentence w/ and or but, but informally it's been frowned on, so I'd keep it to a minimum. And and but are in the class of words known as coordinating conjunctions. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm Instead of commas for pauses, you can use three periods...if you see what I mean. That creates a smoother flow for the reader than commas. The father of the modern novel, Louis Ferdinand Celine, made ... his trade mark, and that gave his "Journey to the End of the Night" has a very fast conversational pace.

Well, at least you use commas; many do the opposite and completely avoid them! I like using them a lot, too. In writing, it is helpful to use them to indicate a pause and to break up the monotony of your text structures. Semi-colons are excellent, too; they allow for further description without having a "run-on" sentence faux pas. Here's another book idea for you: Woe is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English, 3rd Edition [Paperback] written by Patricia T. O'Conner. This one could be helpful to you. You can read the book preface here: http://www.amazon.com/Woe-Grammarphobes-Guide-Better-English/dp/157322331X/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Try to get hold of the book "Eats shoots and leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynn Truss. This book will expertly explain punctuation rules, and give you a good laugh while it is doing so! p.s. I think your question above had quite good punctuation, also there are few set rules about sentences and how to construct them; just get your point across!