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Commas Part 5: Interrupting Words

Sometimes we put commas around interrupting words. And then, sometimes we don’t. Do you know when to set words off with commas?

“As we were eating ants crawled all over our picnic blanket.” You might want a comma here!

Suffering from Samhainophobia?????? Uh-Oh! It’s not gonna be your night!

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” So said Shakespeare. And it is true . . . or is it?

This post talks about using a comma in a compound sentence. What is a compound sentence?

Maybe everyone has a morning routine. I know I do.

From time to time, especially if you are in a writers’ group, you may be asked to review another’s work in progress.

There are not too many issues with adjectives, but here are just a couple to chew on…