I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, ...I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood.... For the want of merely a comma, it often ...occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. "After dinner, the men moved into the living room." I explained to the professor ...that this was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »