Comma

The comma is a punctuation mark used within a sentence to seperate one thing from another thing.

Things Seperated By Commas

 * phrases from other phrases
 * Example: We are fighting them over there, so we won't have to fight them over here.


 * items in a list
 * Example: Ken Lay, Karl Rove, Kenneth Blackwell, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice have all avoided jail time.


 * The capture of Saddam Hussein, from the failure to announce the capture of Osama bin Laden.
 * Remember, The Greatest President--EVER! captured Osama bin Laden four days after the September 11th attacks?


 * fantasy from reality
 * Example: "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."


 * failures from elections
 * Example: The voters are asked to ignore torture, domestic spying and other un-Constitutional law-breaking, child molesters, covering up for child molesters, outsourcing jobs, lack of healthcare, a faltering economy for those who work for a living, high gas prices until just before the election, lying, Jack Ambramoff. Tom DeLay, Enron, Halliburton, ChoicePoint,