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Comma story - Terisa Folaron

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It isn't easy holding complex sentences together (just ask a conjunction or a subordinate), but the clever little comma can help lighten the load. But how to tell when help is really needed? Terisa Folaron offers some tricks of the comma trade.


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  • Animator Brett Underhill
  • Educator Terisa Folaron
  • Narrator Julianna Zarzycki
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Oxford Comma; An Infographic
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Have you ever been judged (positively or negatively) based on your ability to write?
Also, have you ever judged someone else (positively or negatively) based on his or her ability to write?
07/09/2013 • 
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