English grammar: comma?

[Emillionaire]

As the young explorer i am, i wish to improve my English. (3rd language bro, deal with it bro.) German is my second language, and English is my third. (I get A+ in German even tho i suck, lolz. Gotta love that teacher.) 

 

My English teacher will not teach me how to set comma on English, but i would like to improve my grammar on the forum. (life priorities) 

Forum, my future is now in your hands. (dramatic? yes.) 
What is the rules/method for putting comma in a sentence? 

[ImBleu]

You've basically used the comma correctly in your whole post; Well done!

 

The rule that I was taught in primary school is that a comma can basically go anywhere you'd take a breath in the sentence. It's like a period (full stop) for when you're not quite done yet. 

 

It can also be used, for example, as emphasis and should usually go before a coordinating conjunction (connecting words like and/but etc).

[Emillionaire]

1 minute ago, theninja35 said:

Typically, you use a comma to separate objects or clauses of a sentence.

For example: I have three ducks, three cats, and a frog.

Clauses: He was doing great, but he died.

 

You can also use it to separate emotion.

For example: Yes, that would be great (yes being the "emotion" word). I believe another example was in my first sentence (after the word "typically").

 

Try some Schoolhouse Rock episodes for more grammar-related stuff, only because I can't think of any more comma-related ideas off the top of my head (because I use them so regularly).

Awesome, i thought it was as hard as on Danish..

[Emillionaire]

1 minute ago, ThatCoolBlueKidd said:

You've basically used the comma correctly in your whole post; Well done!

 

The rule that I was taught in primary school is that a comma can basically go anywhere you'd take a breath in the sentence. It's like a period (full stop) for when you're not quite done yet. 

 

It can also be used, for example, as emphasis and should usually go before a coordinating conjunction (connecting words like and/but etc).

Awesome, perfekt, fantastic! 

I thought that it was as hard as on Danish. 
On Danish, you have to find some works, make sure that they are seperated by the comma, and follow 100 rules about when to set it twice.

[ImBleu]

2 minutes ago, L0gic said:

Awesome, perfekt, fantastic! 
 

 

In this case, if you were trying to be 100% grammatically correct you would've said "Awesome, Perfect and, Fantastic" as the last item in a list series should use a conjunction. Alternatively as it is also an example of tricolore you could've used semicolons such as "Awesome; Perfect; Fantastic", although this isn't used as much in day-to-day english and is more suitable for emphasis too (and use in speeches, for example).

[Emillionaire]

8 minutes ago, ThatCoolBlueKidd said:

 

In this case, if you were trying to be 100% grammatically correct you would've said "Awesome, Perfect and, Fantastic" as the last item in a list series should use a conjunction. Alternatively as it is also an example of tricolore you could've used semicolons such as "Awesome; Perfect; Fantastic", although this isn't used as much in day-to-day english and is more suitable for emphasis too (and use in speeches, for example).

Thanks for letting me know. It is the opposite on Danish, so i have to get used to it.

 

Thanks for the help guys!

[ImBleu]

1 minute ago, L0gic said:

Thanks for letting me know. It is the opposite on Danish, so i have to get used to it.

 

Thanks for the help guys!

No worries mate! Kudos to you for being able to speak 3 languages and being interested in learning. If you ever have any english related questions you're more than welcome to drop me a message on the forums, after all I majored in english  

[Misanthrope]

I use it to delimit tables:

 

LOCATION,
LOCATION_GID,LOCATION_XID,SOURCE_LOCATION_GID,DEST_LOCATION_GID,DISTANCE_LOOKUP,SERVICE_TIME,DOMAIN_NAME
NA/TL/LTT,LTT,NA/TL/OFF_TOPIC,NA/TL/GENERAL_DISCUSSION,,,NA/TL