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Commas are tricky things, especially when subordinates and conjunctions are involved. 逗号的运用是很讲究技巧的，尤其是当从属关联词和连词也一并参与其中的时候。 If you can remember a few basic rules, a simple law of

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Soon, she seems a couple of subordinates attempting to lift the weight of sentences directly in front of themselves. 不久，她看见了一些从属关联词试图举起放在他们面前的句子。 Even though Bartheleme loves to sing, he never s

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1. To join two independent clauses, use a comma followed by a conjunction, a semicolon alone, or a semicolon followed by a sentence modifier. 2. Use commas to bracket nonrestrictive phrases, which are not essential to the sentence\'s meaning. 3. Do n

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1. To join two independent clauses, use a comma followed by a conjunction, a semicolon alone, or a semicolon followed by a sentence modifier. 2. Use commas to bracket nonrestrictive phrases, which are not essential to the sentence/'s meaning. 3. Do n

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is semicolons. I get questions about semicolons a lot, so it's time to clear up some confusion. Semicolons separate things. Most commonly, they separate two main clauses that are closely related to each other but that

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图片1 Grammar Girl here. This episode is a new and improved version of i.e. versus e.g. Misusing these two abbreviations is one of the top five mistakes I used to see when editing technical documents. There's so much confusion that in some of the d

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Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is going to tell us how one little comma can change the meaning of a sentence. Should we write, He has the ball too with no comma or He has the ball, too? Well, you can write the sentence either way

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is dates. This podcast is sponsored by GoToMyPC. Use GoToMyPC to take your office computer with you wherever you go. Visit http://gotomypc.com/podcast for your free 30 day trial. Can you believe it's already almost 20

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By Mignon Fogarty I decided to write about comma splices because my friend Scott Sigler has a book coming out this week, Ancestor, published by Crown. Over three years ago, when he was publishing an earlier version of the book with a smaller publishe

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Grammar Girl here. Surprise! You get a bonus show today because Thursday is National Punctuation Day and I'm going to have a slightly different kind of podcast to celebrate. Today's topic is semicolons. I get a lot of questions about semicolons, so i

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the serial comma. Here's a listener: Hi, Grammar Girl. This is Patti from Houston... Patti and her friends are debating about the serial commathe comma that comes before the final conjunction in a list. Here's a se

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With the comma, you may think Bob is the DJ, and all you need is him and the puppy. 加了逗号之后你可能会以为鲍勃就是DJ，而你要叫上的是两样事物，DJ鲍勃和狗。 The argument over the Oxford comma has raised such strong p

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AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we answer some listener mail, starting with this question sent by e-mail from Siva Kumar in Madras, in Tamil Nadu, India. RS: Dear Avi and Rosanne, I would like to know the oppos

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: English teacher Lida Baker explains the use of the words after and before. LIDA BAKER: I'm going to say a few sentences and I just want you to tell me two things: Is the sentence

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Grammar Girl here. This episode is a new and improved version of i.e. versus e.g. Misusing these two abbreviations is one of the top five mistakes I used to see when editing technical documents. There's so much confusion that in some of the drafts I

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By Melinda Smith Washington 17 July 2007 Antibiotics are designed to fight a multitude of bacterial infections. But some infections -- such as those in the urinary tract -- have become resistant to many antibiotics. VOA's Melinda Smith reports on a r

英语单词大师：Punctuation Day

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: the founder of National Punctuation Day. RS: Sunday was the day for a celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotes and other proper uses of periods, semicolons and the ev

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【生词预览】 ad广告，saddle马鞍，birdle缰绳，inadvertently粗心大意地，comma逗号，Erroneously错误地 【笑话原文】 What's wrong with your horse? After his beloved horse died, a man wanted to place an ad in the newspaper

艾伦脱口秀第148期:改变职业生涯

Portia is the best, when I'm at work without her. I miss her. 波西亚是最棒的 我们后来不在一起拍摄了 我很想她 We share trailers.So I sent a little picture the other day, like I miss you. 我们共用一辆化妆车 有一天我给她

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