Correction Grammar Guide
Comma Rules Everyone Gets Wrong (and How to Fix Them)
The comma rules that trip up professional writers. Oxford commas, restrictive clauses, compound sentences, and the four rules that fix 80 percent of errors.
The exact change
Before
A 2022 study by the editorial services firm Grammarly analyzed 6.3 million professional documents and ranked the most frequent punctuation errors flagged by human editors. The top ten were:
After
Editors and writing coaches consistently report that a small number of comma errors account for a disproportionate share of the mistakes they flag. Ten of the most frequent patterns are:
Why this is better
The article cites a specific '2022 study by the editorial services firm Grammarly' that supposedly 'analyzed 6.3 million professional documents' and produced a ranked table of the ten most common comm
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