Comma usage in these two sentences:?

Think of a comma as 'a short breather'. No comma after 'and' in the first sentence. Second sentence is fine.

Here's one for you - When may you use commas between semicolons? Stuck? OK, when using commas to add adjectives in lists, such as: Joe likes apples, (comma) the red ones; (semicolon) oranges, (comma) orange ones; (semicolon) and grapes, (comma) purple only.

Try it without semicolons - Joe likes apples, the red ones, oranges, orange ones, and grapes, purple only. See the diff? ;-).

Good question shrugs, I'm dyslexic so I'm not even going to attempt to answer this but I feel like I could learn from it, so I shall mince around till someone answers :D.

This is from A Thousand Splendid Suns. The first one is actually correct; but it's difficult to parse, and stylistically a bit weak (i. E it doesn't have parallel construction, and it's ambiguous whether "spread" is a verb or part of an adjectival phrase "spead below").

A semicolon would make the structure clearer ... From up there, one could make out the tips of the rusted blades of Gul Daman's windmill, on the left; and, on the right, all of Herat spread below. " ... and I'd personally rewrite it for parallel structure: From up there, one could make out, on the left, the tips of the rusted blades of Gul Daman's windmill, and on the right, all of Herat spread below. " The second one is likewise correct, though it's uncommon to use a comma to separate only two adjectives preceding a noun.

Nevertheless, these are both acceptable: "to a wide, trout-filled stream" "to a wide trout-filled stream" The issue really is that styles for punctuation use differ. For everyday texts, style guides tend advise using commas very sparsely. But in literary text, the comma is used a lot more for timing and emphasis (in fact to imitiate the timing of the spoken word).

Both styles are correct in context.

Wow--lots of commas here. I'd remove the commas before 'on the left' or 'on the right' Othewise, they are all correct.

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