By Commas, Jokes

I understand the first sentence means the nun's clothes is getting burned. The second means the nun is cooking meat on a fire. Anyway, I do not get it. Nona, you said this is an unpleasant joke, if you would not like to explain it here, would it be possible to tell me by email? Thanks a lot! ...

It's an unpleasant joke. I'd rather not. Replace each comma with the word 'then' to work it out.

Hi, The whole sentence was a joke. One of the mods (sorry, can't remember who ... MrP?) was basically saying that instead of money or presents, they get loads of mistakes for Christmas. Here are two good pages for comma splices and dangling modifiers . Here are two examples: - comma...

Vincent Teo wrote: (a) I'm very happy to have such a best friend. Okay (b) She helps her mother to do house work / housework. Okay, but you can also write this without the "to." I use "housework" as one word. You can also say "the housework." (c) Her neighbour often praised her for being a...

Hello, I've made some corrections in bold and the highlighted areas are other problems that I've left you to work out for yourself. Your main problems are with prepositions and articles. You are missing out lots of these. You also have a lot of problems with punctuation and are just putting lots...

Hi, My physics teacher The best teacher I have ever had was a friendly and middle-aged woman whose name was Blanca. She wanted to work for NASA in the US as an aerospace engineer. She liked everything connected to space, stars and so on, but she couldn’t get a job with NASA so she had to work...

you must be a highschool student. I really can't help you too much because I don't know how much weight this essay carries for your GPA. I'm guessing your goal is to write a humor piece about marooning your teacher on a deserted island, I could be wrong but it is hard to say as this entire...

Juanita is brilliant and Shalimar has a pleasant personality. Here you just give the attributes of Juanita and Shalimar, who are sisters for example. Juanita is brilliant, and Shalimar has a pleasant personality. There must be a reason for a comma. For example someone has just said: "Juanita...

yeah water is one of the more difficult words to say with an american accent because the brits say it as "war ter" the americans... i think its "wha tuh" there arent many british sounds like that, its like the russians they use lots of sounds that just dont exist in english as do the chinese...

Hello Andrei I would agree with Paco that commas are permissible in your first example. This is an example of syllepsis: both 'tape' and 'officiousness', though different in kind, are governed by 'with'. Commas are often inserted for rhetorical rather than grammatical reasons, to control the...