comma usage | comma usage
Jun.30.2009
I came across this comma usage in an AOL story today:
"Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California said during an April 22, 2009 hearing on credit card reform conducted by the U.S. House Financial Services Committee ..."
For over a decade now, I've been getting paid to stick commas into...
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Nov.17.2008
I noticed recently some rather curious comma choices in the New Yorker. Specifically, its editors seem to prefer to set off with commas prepositional phrases of "in" + a year. They don't do it all the time, but they seem to do it a lot lately. Some examples:
When he died, in 1984, he was...
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Nov.03.2008
After reading Vicki Weiland's guest post yesterday, I finally got off my rear end and decided on my Write Nonfiction in November project. (Yes, I'm actually beginning my writing two days late, which puts me at a disadvantage, I suppose.) When I asked her to write about her pet peeve, what she wrote...
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