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单词 comma
释义
comma
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒm.ə/us
/ˈkɑː.mə/
B1
thesymbol, used in writing toseparatepartsof asentenceshowingaslightpause, or toseparatethesinglethings in alist
逗号（，）
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Examples
  • Put a comma after theclause.
  • We usually put a comma after thousands innumbers.
  • Should I put a comma before the 'and'?
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Grammar

Punctuation
The most common punctuation marks in English are: capital letters and full stops, question marks, commas, colons and semi-colons, exclamation marks and quotation marks.…
Punctuation: commas (,)
We use commas to separate a list of similar words or phrases:…
(Definition ofcommafrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • A comma is used whenever necessary to prevent ambiguity.
  • Added comma missing in original after "hunting".
  • The passage between commas is omitted in the representation, but we know not why.
  • The subject of address is followed by a comma: "John, you are a good man."
  • Whether they put the title in italics, or within commas, it is always italicised in this edition.

comma| American Dictionary

comma
noun[C]
us
/ˈkɑm·ə/
amark(,) used in writing toseparatepartsof asentenceshowingaslightpause, or toseparatethevarioussingleitemsin alist
(Definition ofcommafrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcomma

comma
If teachers have ever told you, that you don't put acommabefore that, they were right.
From theCambridge English Corpus
When a word or phrase is placed in inverted commas, it allows us a provisional use of it.
From theCambridge English Corpus
One could avoid these examples by extracting only those sentences in which in short is followed by acomma.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Their further decomposition, displayed below, is induced by the couniversal property of thecommaconstruction.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Ternary words are interpreted and handled as tuples in binary modified form, with the zeroes playing the role of commas.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In letters themes reports and the like use commas to separate items in a list.
From theCambridge English Corpus
When labelled constructor fields are used, braces, commas, field names, and equal signs are also used.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Finally, list takes care of printing lists using standard list syntax:comma-separated elements between square brackets.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Printed rubrics from the libretto are in italics; sung text is in inverted commas.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Inverted commas around taxonomic names imply that taxonomic attribution at this level is questionable.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Parentheses may be omitted following the usual conventions regarding the precedence of operators and conjunction may be expressed with thecommaoperator instead.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Inferencing based on punctuation was limited to nouns, involving a few cases of capitalization (marking proper nouns) and commas (recognized as separating noun series).
From theCambridge English Corpus
It is to be used in conjunction of thecommaoperator that unquotes expressions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We first change the semantics of thecommaoperator, by enforcing a sequence point between the (left-to-right) evaluation of the two operands.
From theCambridge English Corpus
My memory is that she changed onecomma.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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