In the first part of the series on “Understanding the conventions of academic writing”, I discussed these two common error patterns: i) Missing comma after ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The little word “and,” we probably all know, is a conjunction. It connects things: “She is tall and thin” means she is ...
Does a missing comma in a sentence change the meaning of the sentence? Look at this sentence: The panda eats shoots and leaves. Now insert commas after the words ‘eats’ and ‘shoots’ and the meaning of ...