Comments on: Penguin Guide to Punctuation (R.L. Trask)

By: Travelling Book Junkie

Travelling Book Junkie — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:24:28 +0000

In reply to navigator1965. Thank you for the offer I would love the opportunity to get as much practice is as possible. :)

By: navigator1965

navigator1965 — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 01:29:28 +0000

Good for you! If you need practice in the future as a proof reader, I would be pleased to send a manuscript your way.

I naturally excel at producing material for proof readers in training.

By: Travelling Book Junkie

Travelling Book Junkie — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:12:45 +0000

In reply to Andrew Petcher. It's only a problem if you are trying to link two sentences together which in my case that is nearly all the time. If, however, you can remove the word and the sentence still makes sense this is known as a bracketing comma and that's allowed! :)

By: Andrew Petcher

Andrew Petcher — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:03:57 +0000

In reply to Travelling Book Junkie. I have got about a thousand posts to review now to see how often I used a comma before however!

By: Travelling Book Junkie

Travelling Book Junkie — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:54:24 +0000

In reply to Andrew Petcher. My head is still hurting! Definitely opened my eyes :)

By: Andrew Petcher

Andrew Petcher — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 12:49:52 +0000

Good advice, thanks!