Improve_Your_Punctuation.PDF

(Steven Felgate) #1

This is wrong. It should be:


My name is Bob. I live in London.

or


My name is Bob and I live in London.

The two clauses could also be separated by asemicolon.
There will be more about this later.


My name is Bob; I live in London.

Using commas


Commas can be used for the following purposes:


◆ To separate items in a list. Remember there must be
‘and’ before the last one.
I bought some pens, a pencil, a file, a pad, a ruler and an
eraser.


◆ To separate a list of main clauses.


Jack was doing his homework, his sister was practising the
piano, their father was reading the paper and the baby was
crying.

◆ To separate the subordinate clause from the main clause
when starting the sentence with a subordinating con-
junction.
Because she was ill, she stayed at home.


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