# Comma story

- 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](https://www.ted.com/talks/terisa_folaron_comma_story)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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. \[Directed by Brett Underhill, narrated by Julianna Zarzycki\].

## Lectures

1. [Comma story](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/terisa_folaron_comma_story/3883e3d116e2), 5 min (TED's player)