How do I into commas in English?
t. third worlder
When you want to transition into a side point in a sentence, for example this one I'm making, you would use a comma.
You can also use them in lists. For example, bananas, pears, apples, pineapples, oranges and mangos.
>>206916
Thanks but those are the easy ones.
What I really don't get is where to put them when the sentence is so long you have to use multiple commas to make it readable.
>>206910
By googling "English comma rules"
>>206918
That's not such a clear cut issue. The only way to really know is by reading, or preferably speaking english to know when a single sentence is uncomfortably long.
>>206918
Its usually best to just start another sentence if it gets that long. Commas usually go where pauses would go in speech.
>>206918
You can use commas instead of brackets sometimes.
"Faggots (like OP) cannot use commas." --> "Faggots, like OP, cannot use commas."
Also, sometimes you just use a comma if you would take a breath while saying the sentence out loud. To truly understand how to use commas, you would need to know far more complicated rules about English (subordinate clauses and shit) that you probably haven't heard of if you can't use commas.
For more complicated rules, you'll probably have to tell us the sentence and we can put commas into it.
Commas are for pauses and asides. Say the sentence in your head when you write it, and insert a comma where you imagine yourself pausing, like right here.
Of course, there can be too many commas, while still being "correct," but it's up to you, the writer, to determine when, for the reader, you might be going overboard with them. Notice that you can cut down like half of the commas in the above sentence and toss out some of the subordinate parts. A better way to say the above would be:
>There can be too many commas even if they're not, strictly speaking, grammatically incorrect. It's a stylistic thing.