With a silly meme and a burst of Bad Poetry,,,
Mothers Day
Worth printing and saving for Mothers Day...Mothers don't need costumes. They all fight crime as superheroines.
As usual, thanks to Joe Jackson for a Calvin & Hobbes cartoon.
Writing
All whose brains are not in comas
Know the uses and merits of commas.
Even theatrical performers
See that the little things spare us dramas.
This web site favors Oxford Commas
Without which some sentences are alarmers...
No need to be commie about commas.
Help yourself to all you need.
Each item in a list gets a comma
Unless they're numbered, one-two-three'd,
Though not all pauses for breath require commas.
(Some fear these marks of punctuation breed.)
Commas are common in English writing
Because they so often come in so handy.
Not quite in every sentence alighting,
They're sprinkled about like bits of candy.
Use them precisely, to enlighten,
So that they always look fine and dandy.
Commas separate phrases and clauses
(For clauses, they also need a conjunction).
They spell out the subtle little pauses,
As when names are spoken with due compunction.
A leap from "I want" right off "Santa Claus" is
A sign of an ethical dysfunction:
Dere santa claus I want a REAL racing car not just a Toy &
& ALL the Boxes of Legos in the Store
& a Thorobred Horse not just a Pony &
hey I'm not finish I want a lot more
Comments, if short, may be marked by commas:
Interrupting a quote to say "he said";
Annotating: "They eloped, as in Shakespeare's dramas,
When her parents advised them not to wed";
Though if items are long phrases like a farmer's
To-do list, use semicolons instead.
Commas make our communication
Easier, though this poem, for one,
Was written less for clarification
Than for five minutes of chortles and fun.
If you need further education,
Grammar sites show how commas'
Pretty little tricks,
Clever little tricks,
Easy ways to fix
A sentence, should be done.
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