If you said no, you're right. It's a kind of run-on sentence or "run-together sentence." It's an example of a comma splice. That's when you join two sentences with a comma. And that's wrong, at least ...
In her Oct. 17, 2007, letter to the editor about my online Commentary “No Wiz at Grammar” (Sept. 24, 2007), Lorraine S. Caplan states that the British “consider the comma to be an appropriate ...
You can get Samuel Beckett’s most famous comma splice (absent commas) on a T-shirt or coffee mug Because the conventions for their use are so variable, commas can provide a quick sense of a writer’s ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. As part of my job, I read the written work of lots of different people of different ages. I notice that many of them use comma splices, ...
Simply sign up to the Work & Careers myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A leaflet from the Liberal Democrats drops through my letter box. “Elections in Hornsey and Wood Green are between ...