Comma it is preceded by a semicolon and followed by a comma. Using commas to offset certain adverbs is optional, including "then", "so", "yet", "instead", and "too" (meaning "also"). Commas are often used to enclose parenthetical words and phrases within a sentence (i.e., information that is not essential to the meaning of the sentence). Such phrases are both preceded and followed by a comma, unless that would result in a doubling of punctuation marks or the parenthetical is at the start or end of the sentence. The following are examples of types of parenthetical phrases: A comma is used to separate
Irony punctuation mark was used earlier by Marcellin Jobard in an article dated June 11, 1841, and commented in an 1842 report. Hervé Bazin, in his 1966 essay "Plumons l'Oiseau" (“Let's pluck the bird”), used the Greek letter ψ with a dot below for the same purpose . In the same work, the author proposed five other innovative punctuation marks: the “doubt point” , “conviction point” , “acclamation point” , “authority point” , and “love point” . In March 2007, the Dutch foundation CPNB "(Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek)" presented another design of an irony mark, the "ironieteken": (). Tom Driberg