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English Skills with Readings, 5/e
John Langan, Atlantic Community College

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comma  punctuation mark used to separate items in a series, set off introductory material or words that interrupt the flow of thought in a sentence, join two complete thoughts (together with a conjunction), set off direct quotations, etc.