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Comma story

Terisa Folaron · TED

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About

It isn't easy holding complex sentences together (just ask a conjunction or a subordinate), but the clever little comma can help lighten the load. But how to tell when help is really needed? Terisa Folaron offers some tricks of the comma trade. [Directed by Brett Underhill, narrated by Julianna Zarzycki].

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
Terisa Folaron
Year
2013
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Literature and writing, Languages and linguistics, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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