Other forms: commas
A comma is the small curved mark that gives a sentence a tiny pause. Put a comma there, a missing comma, the Oxford comma.
It separates items in a list and marks off clauses, and misplacing one changes the meaning — which is why the difference between let's eat, Grandma and let's eat Grandma is the standard joke. The Oxford comma before the final and is optional and argued about endlessly. A comma splice joins two sentences with a comma where a full stop or a semicolon belongs.
1nouncommaThe mark that gives a sentence a tiny pause.
“Put a comma after 'However' at the start of a sentence.”
comma is a punctuation mark.
Greek komma means a piece cut off, from koptein, to cut. It named a clause before it named the mark that shows where a clause ends.
Latin
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English, today
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Built from
Borrowed from Latin comma. From Latin comma, from Ancient Greek κόμμα, from κόπτω (“to cut”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA