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This tag is for questions about punctuation. This encompasses marks such as the period/full stop, comma, dash, and parentheses, used to separate structural units and perform other roles that clarify the meaning. USE THE 'SYMBOLS' tag for currency symbols, accents and so forth.
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Is it correct to place comma between successive adjectives?
A single comma between two adjectives, as in your bath example, tends to parse the sentence wrongly: in this case, "unwind with a nice" and "hot bath". ("Unwind by" suggests, say, doing yoga on the ba …
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"You are right; I'm sorry" — semicolon or comma?
You are right; the semicolon should be deployed here. I don't like the comma splice, although some will argue that it is harmless and conventional in short informal English constructions like your exa …
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Should I use a comma before "and" or "or"?
"I went to Japan and returned in 2009" is correct but rather unspecific. It could imply either "I went [say, in 2003] and returned in 2009" or "I went and returned in 2009". The comma in "I went to Ja …