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See also:COMMA (Gr. Kbµµa, a thing stamped or cut off, from Koirrecv, to strike) , originally, in See also:Greek See also:rhetoric, a See also:short clause, something less than the " See also:colon "; hence a See also:mark (,), in See also:punctuation, to show the smallest break in the construction of a See also:sentence . The mark is also used to See also:separate numerals, mathematical symbols and the like . Inverted commas, or " See also:quotation-marks," i.e.pairs of commas, the first inverted, and the last upright, are placed at the beginning and end of a sentence or word quoted, or of a word used in a technical or conventional sense; single commas are similarly used for quotations within quotations . The word is also applied to See also:comma-shaped See also:objects, such as the " comma-bacillus," the causal See also:agent in See also:cholera . |
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