The Ten Basic Comma Rules

Hundreds of years ago, British playwright William Shakespeare came down from Mount Everest with two huge, stone tablets engraved with the ten basic rules about commas. Okay, that’s not even close to being true, but just as Moses had his ten commandments to live by, writers have ten basic comma rules that they need to know if they want their writing to be clear and precise.

One. Commas are used to separate the parts of complete dates and addresses. This is probably the easiest rule of all because most people know that they need to separate the date from the year and the city from the…