Friday, October 5, 2012

The Best Rule for Commas

There are a crazy amount of rules for when to appropriately use a comma in your writing.  Want to learn a trick?  Read your writing aloud, and whenever you come to a natural pause, add a comma.

    "Then I'm there and I'm looking in through the glass in the door to the listening room and I'm glad I came.  She's sitting there right where she was yesterday her long fingers hovering above the keys of her laptop head tilted to one side listening.  She's got on a dark green sweater and some reddish corduroy pants.  There's a thin strand of pearls around her neck.  She looks dressed up prettier than ever.  Somebody knows what looks good on this girl." -Things Not Seen

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