anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
a delicate kink in time, a pause within a sentence, a chance to catch your breath (Karen Elizabeth Gordon in The New Well-Tempered Sentence, p
an apostrophe that has fallen from its high estate
a pause, a period is a full stop
a pause at the end of a clause
a punctuation mark used to help the reader by separating parts of a sentence
a punctuation mark used to separate words or phrases in a sentence
instructions to insert a comma (,) in the sentence (Blasted).
this cuts off one clause from another. It separates items on a list.. As a pair, it acts as parenthesis, separating added information, asides, non essential extras etc. from the main sentence. The placement of a comma can alter the emphasis placed on a word or phrase.
A comma ( , ) is a punctuation mark. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline of the text. Some typefaces render it as a small line, slightly curved or straight, or as a small, filled-in number 9.
The Comma (Polygonia c-album) is a species of butterfly, common in the United Kingdom and with a distribution across Europe and temperate Asia to Japan and south to Morocco. Similar species are found in the United States and Canada. It has a white marking on its underwings resembling a comma.