You can get Samuel Beckett’s most famous comma splice (absent commas) on a T-shirt or coffee mug Because the conventions for their use are so variable, commas can provide a quick sense of a writer’s ...

If you said no, you're right. It's a kind of run-on sentence or "run-together sentence." It's an example of a comma splice. That's when you join two sentences with a comma. And that's wrong, at least ...

One of my students once told me that when she writes something she always puts a comma wherever she thinks someone should take a breath. She defended this by saying this is what they do in a musical ...