Ben Yagoda examines comma-splice-smitten writers, including Kate Atkinson, whose Life After Life is his favorite novel read over the last year. Lingua Franca: Splice Girl ...

comma splice: In the second advertisement we see that the man leans on the woman's body, he is obviously in pain. run-on sentence: In the second advertisement we see that the man leans on the woman's ...

By R.L.G. | NEW YORK. SEVERAL months ago I w as surprised to see Arnold Zwicky, a linguist, use a comma splice. A few commenters took me to task for being over-picky. The question came up again in ...

The comma splice is an American invention. Being a reader of British novels, I discovered this years ago. ... Test your knowledge on the latest news and trends in education.

Could you pick out a comma splice? Test your knowledge with our punctuation quiz. By Josie Gurney Read 12 June 2015 • 7:00am . How good is your punctuation? Take our quiz ...

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 ...

In her book Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss lists other celebrated users of the comma splice: Samuel Beckett, EM Forster, Somerset Maugham. “So many highly respected writers adopt the splice ...

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 ...

Comma splices, on the other hand, have a criminal bent. Purists insist they belong in informal speech only, yet try telling that to Braveheart. In order to promote his 1995 biopic, ...