tailieunhanh - mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 10

Tham khảo tài liệu 'mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 10', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 398 PUNCTUATION In the next examples the comma separating two coordinated verbs while not necessary because of their length gives the idea more emphasis We turned to them and paused. At night we were stained by dew and shamed into pettiness by the innumerable silences of stars. T. E. Lawrence t The Comma with Lists and Series A list or series consists of three or more grammatically parallel words or constructions such as three of four subjects of the same verb say or three verbs of the same subject or four or five adjectives modifying the same noun. The items in a list or series may be joined by coordinating conjunctions She bought bread and eggs and cheese or by parataxis She bought bread eggs cheese . The most common method is to combine parataxis and coordination linking the last two items with and or or but not and joining the others paratactically She bought bread eggs and cheese. When a list or series is completely paratactic commas are used between the items Oriental luxury goods jade silk gold spices vermilion jewels had formerly come overland by way of the Caspian Sea. . . Robert Craves When it is completely coordinated the commas are usually omitted She was crying now because she remembered that her life had been a long succession of humiliations and mistakes and pains and ridiculous efforts. Jean Rhys In the combined method the most frequent practice a comma goes between each pair of paratactic elements and is STOPS 399 optional between the final coordinated pair the choice depending on the preference of the writer or the policy of an editor. The first of these examples uses the comma the second does not Fifty years ago when all type was set by hand the labor of several men was required to print fold and arrange in piles the signatures of a book. Carl Becker His plan was to clinch his teeth shut his eyes whirl the club round his head and bring it down with sickening violence in the general direction of the sphere. p. G. Wodehouse But whether you choose .