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Definition of Comma

Comma

  1. A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.
  2. A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.

Comma Quotations

It's always nice to end your sentences with an exclamation mark, and not a comma.
Joey Santiago

Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma.
Geoffrey Rush

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.
Winston Graham

If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in.
Francine Prose

Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.
Ronald Harwood
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Comma Translations

comma in Dutch is komma
comma in French is virgule
comma in German is Komma
comma in Italian is virgola
comma in Spanish is virgula
comma in Swedish is kommatecken

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