For me, like I bet for everyone else as well, commas are a nightmare. I never know when it is the right time to put one in my papers. I am always sticking them in places I think is right, but that does not seem to be right. For example in that very last sentence, did i need one before the word or did i need it after or really did i need it at all? There are just so many rules to commas that i just give up and sometimes don't even place them at all.
A comma by definition is a punctuation mark used to indicate the separation of ideas or of elements within a sentence. The definition seems simple enough but still many people like myself still struggle with the rules.
Here is a site that gives you all the comma rules, and can be handy to have when writing any paper.
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/commas.asp
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Rosanna it would be good to look at one rule at a time over the next few weeks for your grammar pots. You are right. There are a lot of rules out there.
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