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Posted on November 7, 2018September 29, 2020

Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, Chameleon. How to use commas (2). Pompeo and commas and CMOS.

3-minute read   In the wake of Secretary Pompeo’s edicts about punctuation, which hit the U.S. headlines in late September this year, I blogged about…

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Posted on October 4, 2018September 29, 2020

Pompeo and commas and CMOS. How to use commas (1).

5-minute read James Thurber was once asked why there was a comma in the sentence "After dinner, the men went into the living room.” He…

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