Betekenis van:
comma
comma
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- het kleinst hoorbare interval
- anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
Synoniemen
Hyperoniemen
comma
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- leesteken dat een korte pauze aangeeft
- a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence
Hyperoniemen
Voorbeeldzinnen
- I’d suggest a comma.
- I’d suggest removing the comma.
- I’d suggest inserting a comma.
- I suggest putting a comma here.
- For an English speaker every comma is to be avoided.
- In another paragraph, he put in a comma.
- Tom is sad, as in German sentences he is often separated from Mary by a comma.
- He looked at me with consternation, saying that he must put a comma somewhere.
- Tom is sad because he is often separated from Mary in German sentences by a comma.
- The word that Mary had, just before the comma, to enrage Tom, was the word "erased".
- The Oxford comma is awkward, unnecessary, and cannot be carried over to languages other than English.
- The Greeks invented the comma, not for their literature but for their actors, to warn them to take a deep breath in preparation of an upcoming long phrase; thus a comma represents a pause.
- The book reviewer who detects a missing comma, immediately feels elevated to the level of the writer.
- My attitude to the comma is physiological; the more breath I have, the fewer commas I use.
- In my language, the "," is called comma, the ";" is called semicolon, ":" is called colon, "..." are called ellipsis, and this sentence ends with a period.