Comma titles that follow a name: "John Smith, Ph.D." Similarly in lists that are presented with an inversion: "...; socks, green: 3 pairs; socks, red: 2 pairs; tie, regimental: 1". Commas may be used to indicate that a word, or a group of words, has been omitted, as in "The cat was white; the dog, brown." (Here the comma replaces "was".) Commas are placed before, after, or around a noun or pronoun used independently in speaking to some person, place or thing: In his 1785 essay "An Essay on Punctuation", Joseph Robertson advocated a comma between the subject and predicate of
Slovene punctuation punctuation is not changed when using dashes, so an inserted sentence before a comma is usually followed by a comma nonetheless, even though some might see this usage as rather pedantic. A dash at the end of a sentence marks an abrupt end, a breaking of thought or unwillingness to continue: In sentences without a predicate, a dash can represent the connexion between the subject and the object. A dash can introduce direct speech if there is no accompanying sentence before direct speech itself. Dash sometimes separates multiple surnames, though it is more usual to merely use a space. A