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How Strunk Lost His Comma - CMOS Shop Talk
How Strunk Lost His Comma - CMOS Shop Talk CMOS Shop Talk From the Chicago Manual of Style Menu...Contact Join How Strunk Lost His Comma Chicago Manual / December 10, 2019 Section 6.43 in the...Spotlight Chicago style doesn’t require commas when “Jr.” or “Sr.” follows a name. Until just a few decades...

[16th ed.] Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences - CMOS Shop Talk
Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences - CMOS Shop Talk CMOS Shop Talk From the Chicago Manual of Style...of Style Contact Join Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences Russell Harper / April 16, 2019 What is a... comma splice? Most writers and editors learn not to join (or splice*) two independent clauses with a...

Oxford, Chicago, and the Serial Comma - CMOS Shop Talk
Oxford, Chicago, and the Serial Comma - CMOS Shop Talk CMOS Shop Talk From the Chicago Manual of...Manual of Style Contact Join Oxford, Chicago, and the Serial Comma Russell Harper / February 11, 2020...What’s in a Name? Its generic name is the serial (or series) comma, but many people know it by a...

Is a Comma Needed to Introduce Dialogue? - CMOS Shop Talk
Is a Comma Needed to Introduce Dialogue? - CMOS Shop Talk CMOS Shop Talk From the Chicago Manual of...Manual of Style Contact Join Is a Comma Needed to Introduce Dialogue? Carol Saller / November 8, 2022...Q. Would you add a comma before the quotation marks in the following sentences? Ellie finally...

“City, State” A Comma with Two Competing Roles - CMOS Shop Talk
“City, State”: A Comma with Two Competing Roles - CMOS Shop Talk CMOS Shop Talk From the Chicago...Chicago Manual of Style Contact Join “City, State”: A Comma with Two Competing Roles Russell Harper.../ November 23, 2021 The comma between city and state—or, following the same principle, between city and...

Chicago Style Workout 1Series and the Serial Comma - CMOS Shop Talk
Chicago Style Workout 1:Series and the Serial Comma - CMOS Shop Talk CMOS Shop Talk From the...Chicago Manual of Style Contact Join Chicago Style Workout 1:Series and the Serial Comma Chicago...workout zeroes in on the section of the Manual called “Series and the Serial Comma,” specifically sections...

Mary Norris, the New Yorker’s "Comma Queen," talks about styles, tolerance, and her new book - CMOS Shop Talk
Mary Norris, the New Yorker’s "Comma Queen," talks about styles, tolerance, and her new book - CMOS...Yorker’s “Comma Queen,” talks about styles, tolerance, and her new book Chicago Manual / April 29...master’s in English from the University of Vermont. Her book Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma ...

Commas with “Too” and “Either” - CMOS Shop Talk
Commas with “Too” and “Either” - CMOS Shop Talk CMOS Shop Talk From the Chicago Manual of Style...Style Contact Join Commas with “Too” and “Either” Chicago Manual / July 21, 2020 Section 6.52 in the...” in the adverbial sense of “also” should be set off by commas. The rule applies also to “either...

Chicago Style Workout 60 Commas - CMOS Shop Talk
Chicago Style Workout 60: Commas - CMOS Shop Talk CMOS Shop Talk From the Chicago Manual of Style...Style Contact Join Chicago Style Workout 60: Commas Chicago Manual / November 30, 2021 Comma Sense... Commas play at least two main roles in ordinary prose. They can set off words, phrases, and clauses...

Commas between Compound Predicates - CMOS Shop Talk
Commas between Compound Predicates - CMOS Shop Talk CMOS Shop Talk From the Chicago Manual of Style...of Style Contact Join Commas between Compound Predicates Russell Harper / January 19, 2021 We learn...from CMOS 6.23 that “a comma is not normally used to separate a two-part compound predicate joined by...

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