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Unfortunately, things like natural pauses aren't recognized as a comma.
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At controversial meetings, such as the Nice summit last December, the text becomes a serious bone of contention, with every comma argued over.
BBC: Signing of 1997 Amsterdam summit
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He once called a fellow director on Christmas Day to complain about a missing comma in a memo.
ECONOMIST: Siegmund Warburg
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At a time when the markets are asking searching questions about the ability of the Greek and Italian governments to do the right thing, Danny Alexander and his Conservative boss, George Osborne, want the boys in the City to be in no doubt that the British government will hold its nerve and, therefore, not alter a dot or comma of their plans.
BBC: Just how flexible is Plan A?
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"Before we could not even change a comma, a word, " says Ibrahim.
CNN: DASHED HOPES
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In other words, you actually have to say the word "comma" in order for it to insert one.
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Coyle, his co-author, said that when he first began talking to Hamilton for "The Secret Race, " Hamilton's answers came so slowly he could transcribe every word and comma easily, by hand, with no abbreviations.
WSJ: Hamilton Sees Armstrong's Long Road
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The absence of a comma before "who doesn't" implies that there are other brothers.
BBC: 10 questions on grammar
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The same is true of the pose in which Freddie initially sees him: pooled in light, brow clutched, pencil in hand, one careful comma of blond hair dangling down, as if posing for the portrait of a thinker.
NEWYORKER: Sail Away
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' But without a comma after 'apartment, ' the sentence signifies that the suspect has at least two apartments.
WSJ: Celebrating a Decade of the Believer
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Even the somewhat irritating absence of a comma in the title may have been meant to convey his constant rush from first light to dusk.
ECONOMIST: Nicolas Sarkozy
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She went from a freelance writer without a comma in her checking account to a millionaire entrepreneur with a staff of ten on both sides of the Atlantic.
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