How do you use Commas in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Commas meaning
plural of comma
Using Commas
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of comma
- In the example corpus, commas often appears in combinations such as: inverted commas, by commas, and commas.
Context around Commas
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Commas
- In this selection, "commas" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, inverted, multiple, usual, codeine, makes and became stand out and add context to how "commas" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and multiple commas and and uses commas to create. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "commas" sits close to words such as aachen, abayomi and abbots, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with commas
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
What's with the inverted commas? (6 words)
Your use of commas makes my eyes hurt subby. (9 words)
For instance, in Standard German, subordinate clauses are always preceded by commas. (12 words)
An extract from the letter: 'The phrase "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" which you have found in my book Voltaire in His Letters is my own expression and should not have been put in inverted commas. (49 words)
British English is more tolerant of run-on sentences, called "comma splices" in American English, and American English requires that periods and commas be placed inside closing quotation marks even in cases in which British rules would place them outside. (40 words)
A similar system was devised by Carl Eitz and used in Barbour (1951) in which Pythagorean notes are started with and positive or negative superscript numbers are added indicating how many commas (81/80, syntonic comma) to adjust by. (39 words)
What's with the inverted commas? (6 words)
Example sentences (20)
Comer and the Republican majority on the committee produced a four-page memo full of the names of LLCs and dollar signs followed by various numbers and multiple commas.
Meanwhile, as our bank balances reach zero and head for red, billionaires add more noughts and commas to their financial ‘worth’.
We track those foreign terms, and you’ll find that when they’re first used in English they’ll have inverted commas around them or they’ll appear in italics.
At the moment, the party has not been built up to the standard in which we in the NWC want to build it; it’s more or less looking like an Igbo party with inverted commas.
The project features the standout singles "Monster," "Fuck Up Some Commas," "Codeine Crazy," "My Savages" and more, and had production from Metro, Southside, TM88, DJ Spinz, Nard and B and others.
What's with the inverted commas?
Your use of commas makes my eyes hurt subby.
If you replace the usual commas with hyphens, will attempt to subtract one field from another – probably not what you intended.
The sort of living, breathing thing that the carbon tax, in inverted commas, became … the hostility of sections of the media.
It’s the people, the laughs and the memories that have made my three semesters at The Hatchet more than commas.
A clear example of this can be found in Walt Whitman 's poems, where he repeats certain phrases and uses commas to create both a rhythm and structure.
All names can be subscripted (the name followed by parentheses, with multiple subscripts separated by commas).
An extract from the letter: 'The phrase "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" which you have found in my book Voltaire in His Letters is my own expression and should not have been put in inverted commas.
A passage peppered with commas—which in the past would have indicated painstaking and authoritative editorial attention—smacks simply of no backbone.
A similar system was devised by Carl Eitz and used in Barbour (1951) in which Pythagorean notes are started with and positive or negative superscript numbers are added indicating how many commas (81/80, syntonic comma) to adjust by.
British English is more tolerant of run-on sentences, called "comma splices" in American English, and American English requires that periods and commas be placed inside closing quotation marks even in cases in which British rules would place them outside.
C has some features, such as line-number preprocessor directives and optional superfluous commas at the end of initializer lists, which support compilation of generated code.
Each sign may include the following components: a large black hook or a black stroke, several smaller black 'points' and 'commas' and lines near the hook or crossing the hook.
English commonly uses the nominative case for vocative expressions, but sets them off from the rest of the sentences with pauses as interjections (rendered in writing as commas).
For instance, in Standard German, subordinate clauses are always preceded by commas.
Common combinations with commas
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- inverted commas 6×
- by commas 6×
- and commas 5×
- commas to 4×
- with commas 3×
- commas or 3×
- of commas 2×
- many commas 2×
- commas syntonic 2×
- commas are 2×